Constructionalization and constructional changes /

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Author / Creator:Traugott, Elizabeth Closs, author.
Imprint:Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Series:Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ; 6
Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ; 6.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12014700
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Other authors / contributors:Trousdale, Graeme, 1971- author.
ISBN:9780191669491
0191669490
9780191760075
0191760072
9780199679898
0199679894
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:This title develops an approach to language change based on construction grammar in order to reconceptualise grammaticalisation and lexicalisation. The authors show that language change proceeds by micro-steps involving every aspect of grammar including pragmatics and discourse functions.
Other form:Print version: Traugott, Elizabeth Closs. Constructionalization and constructional changes 9780199679898