Back to the future

Bybee, Joan L.; Pagliuca, William; Perkins, Revere D.

doi:10.1075/tsl.19.2.04byb

In:Approaches to Grammaticalization: Volume II. Types of grammatical markers
Edited by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Bernd Heine
[Typological Studies in Language 19:2] 1991
► pp. 17–58

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Back to the future

Joan L. Bybee

William Pagliuca

Revere D. Perkins

Published online: 15 October 1991

https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.19.2.04byb

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