On the development of binominal quantifiers in Spanish: the notion of lexical persistence revisited

This paper questions the widespread agreement on routinization processes, and ‘desemanticization’ in particular, as a precondition to grammaticalization. In usage-based approaches, increase in (type as well as token) frequency is generally considered both the result of and a primary contributor to t...

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Main Authors: Katrien Verveckken, Nicole Delbecque
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association Française de Linguistique Cognitive 2015-12-01
Series:CogniTextes
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/cognitextes/838