Class notes
Final_Peer_Reviewed_Manuscript on problem areas in grammaticalization
- Course
- ENGLISH ALL (ENGLISHALL)
- Institution
- Harvard College
In a number of recent studies on grammaticalization, it has been argued that the Lehmannian parameter of scope decrease does not work, and that instead scope increase is involved. In this paper I will look at a classic case of grammaticalization, that of the English modals, and suggest that the sco...
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