Measure Noun constructions: An instance of semantically-driven grammaticalization

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 283-312

  Brems, Lieselotte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Delexicalization; Emergent quantifiers; Grammaticalization; Quantitative profiles; Vagueness

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248693255     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.8.2.05bre     Document Type: Article

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