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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Association Française de Linguistique Cognitive
2015-12-01
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Series: | CogniTextes |
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Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/cognitextes/838 |