From LIKE/LOVE to habitual: the case of Mainland East and Southeast Asian languages

This paper documents the common grammaticalization path of the LIKE/LOVE constructions into expressing habitual aspect in Mainland East and Southeast Asian languages. The stages and degrees of grammaticalization for the LIKE/LOVE constructions vary cross-linguistically and different stages of evolut...

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Main Author: Fang Hongmei
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2025-01-01
Series:Linguistics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2022-0201