The concepts of constructional mismatch and type-shifting from the perspective of grammaticalization

Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 523-557

  Traugott, Elizabeth Closs ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coercion; Construction grammar; Degree modifier construction; Grammaticalization; Partitive construction; Type shifting

Indexed keywords

EID: 36849016289     PISSN: 09365907     EISSN: 16133641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/COG.2007.027     Document Type: Article

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