The present of the English future: Grammatical variation and collocations in discourse

Language

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 321-354

  Cacoullos, Rena Torres ^a   Walker, James A ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Collocation; Construction; English; Future; Grammaticalization path; Variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 73649099168     PISSN: 00978507     EISSN: 15350665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/lan.0.0110     Document Type: Article

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