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In:Discourse-Pragmatic Variation in Context: Eight hundred years of LIKE
Alexandra D'Arcy
[Studies in Language Companion Series 187] 2017
► pp. 67–116

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Chapter 4
Developmental context

Published online: 21 September 2017

https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.187.c4

Article outline

Setting the scene: Context, data, method
But like cannot go anywhere
The development of like
- The clausal domain
  - The matrix CP context
  - The subordinate CP context
  - The subordinate TP context
  - Summary of the clausal domain
- The nominal domain
  - The DP context
  - The nP context
  - Summary of the nominal domain
- The adjectival domain
- The verbal domain
  - The evidence from adverbs
  - The effects of syntax and semantics
  - Summary of the verbal domain
Putting the pieces together: like syntax