The last stages of grammatical elements; contractive and expansive desemanticization

Greenberg, Joseph H.

doi:10.1075/tsl.19.1.14gre

In:Approaches to Grammaticalization: Volume I. Theoretical and methodological issues
Edited by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Bernd Heine
[Typological Studies in Language 19:1] 1991
► pp. 301–314

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The last stages of grammatical elements; contractive and expansive desemanticization

Joseph H. Greenberg

Published online: 15 October 1991

https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.19.1.14gre

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