‘Methinks’ there is some confusion: Grammaticalization versus lexicalization

Wischer, Ilse

doi:10.1075/slcs.53.17wis

In:Pathways of Change: Grammaticalization in English
Edited by Olga Fischer, Anette Rosenbach and Dieter Stein
[Studies in Language Companion Series 53] 2000
► pp. 355–370

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Grammaticalization versus lexicalization

‘Methinks’ there is some confusion

Ilse Wischer | University of Potsdam

Published online: 13 November 2000

https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.53.17wis

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