The grammaticalization of the verb ‘pray’

Akimoto, Minoji

doi:10.1075/slcs.53.05aki

In:Pathways of Change: Grammaticalization in English
Edited by Olga Fischer, Anette Rosenbach and Dieter Stein
[Studies in Language Companion Series 53] 2000
► pp. 67–84

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The grammaticalization of the verb ‘pray’

Minoji Akimoto | Aoyama Gakuin University

Published online: 13 November 2000

https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.53.05aki

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