the grammaticization of subjects: The role of motivation in the emergence of grammatical categories

Mithun, Marianne

doi:10.1075/tsl.19.2.09mit

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. 159–184

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The role of motivation in the emergence of grammatical categories

the grammaticization of subjects

Marianne Mithun

Published online: 15 October 1991

https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.19.2.09mit

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