Pure grammaticalization: The development of a teenage intensifier

Language Variation and Change

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 267-283

  Macaulay, Ronald ^a  

^a PITZER COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 33749069703     PISSN: 09543945     EISSN: 14698021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954394506060133     Document Type: Article

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