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Grammaticalization and Language Change : New Reflections.

This study focuses on "the many careers of negative polarity items", taking a diachronic perspective on NPIs in general and on scalar NPIs in particular. Its main thesis is that scalar NPIs are prototypical NPIs. The downward entailing contexts of NPIs can be explained and made cognitively...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Davidse, Kristin
Autres auteurs: Breban, Tine, Brems, Lieselotte, Mortelmans, Tanja
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012.
Collection:Studies in language companion series.
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