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Grammaticalisation clines: a brief conceptual history

Posted on 6 March 2019 by Martin Konvička — 2 Comments

Martin Konvička Freie Universität Berlin 1 Grammaticalisation clines In this blog post, I will sketch the history of grammaticalisation clines. Hopper and Traugott (2003: 6) understand this concept as “a metaphor for the empirical observation that cross-linguistically forms tend to undergo…

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