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In:Walking on the Grammaticalization Path of the Definite Article: Functional Main and Side Roads
Edited by Renata Szczepaniak and Johanna Flick
[Studies in Language Variation 23] 2020
► pp. 1–14

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Introduction

Walking on the grammaticalization path of the definite article – functional main and side roads

 | Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
 | Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Published online: 8 April 2020
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https://doi.org/10.1075/silv.23.int
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  • 1.Introduction
    • 1.1Models of the grammaticalization path demonstrative > definite article
    • 1.2Papers in this volume
      • Section 1.From pragmatic to semantic definiteness
      • Section 2.Syntactic contexts, cognition and grammaticalization
      • Section 3.From definite into onymic article – and finally onymic classifier
  • References
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