Going-to-V and gonna-V in child language: A quantitative approach to constructional development

Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 509-538

  Schmidtke Bode, Karsten ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Configurational Frequency Analysis; Constructional grounding; Constructional networks; Going to V; Gonna V; Grammaticalization; Mosaic development

Indexed keywords

EID: 69149105123     PISSN: 09365907     EISSN: 16133641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/COGL.2009.023     Document Type: Article

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