The grammaticalization of small size nouns: Reconsidering frequency and analogy

Journal of English Linguistics

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 293-324

  Brems, Lieselotte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Analogy; Collocations; Constructional schematicity; Grammaticalization; Low frequency items; Polarity sensitivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 46349105603     PISSN: 00754242     EISSN: 15525457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0075424207307597     Document Type: Article

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