Chapter 8: A Historical Overview of Complex Predicate Types

Traugott, Elizabeth Closs

doi:10.1075/slcs.47.74clo

In:Collocational and Idiomatic Aspects of Composite Predicates in the History of English
Edited by Laurel J. Brinton and Minoji Akimoto
[Studies in Language Companion Series 47] 1999
► pp. 239–260

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Chapter 8: A Historical Overview of Complex Predicate Types

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Elizabeth Closs Traugott

Published online: 15 March 1999

https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.47.74clo

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