Periphrastic do: Function and grammar in the history of English

Kroch, Anthony S.

doi:10.1075/cilt.52.09kro

In:Language Change and Variation
Edited by Ralph W. Fasold and Deborah Schiffrin
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 52] 1989
► pp. 133–172

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Function and grammar in the history of English

Periphrastic do

Anthony S. Kroch

Published online: 1 January 1989

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.52.09kro

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