Grammaticalization and Language Change : New Reflections.

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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Main Author: Davidse, Kristin
Other Authors: Breban, Tine, Brems, Lieselotte, Mortelmans, Tanja
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012.
Series:Studies in language companion series.
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Grammaticalization.
Linguistic change.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Grammaticalization
Linguistic change
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