A corpus-based investigation of absolutely and related phenomena in spoken American English

Journal of English Linguistics

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 5-29

  Tao, Hongyin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Absolutely; Collocation patterns; Degree adverbs; Emergent Grammar; Grammaticalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249135245     PISSN: 00754242     EISSN: 15525457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0075424206296615     Document Type: Article

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