Syntactic change and discourse function: The English gerund

Houston, A.

doi:10.1075/cilt.52.10hou

In:Language Change and Variation
Edited by Ralph W. Fasold and Deborah Schiffrin
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 52] 1989
► pp. 173–196

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The English gerund

Syntactic change and discourse function

A. Houston

Published online: 1 January 1989

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.52.10hou

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