Grammaticization, synchronic variation, and language contact : a study of Spanish progressive -ndo constructions / Rena Torres Cacoullos.
This study of Old Spanish and present-day Mexico and New Mexico data develops a grammaticization account of variation in progressive constructions. Diachronic changes in cooccurrence patterns show that grammaticization involves reductive change driven by frequency increases. Formal reduction results...
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins,
©2000.
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| Series: | Studies in language companion series ;
v. 52. |
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