Diachronic Emergence of Zipf-like Patterns in Construction-Specific Frequency Distributions: A Quantitative Study of the Way Too Construction
The linguistic constituents that come to express path are often co-opted into more abstract schematic constructions through a diachronic process known as constructionalization. This applies to the way too intensifier construction, whose origin I retrace to a former away too construction. Moreover, t...
Main Author: | Quentin Feltgen |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3
2020-12-01
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Series: | Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology |
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Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/lexis/4968 |
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