Structural Scope Expansion and Grammaticalization

Tabor, Whitney; Traugott, Elizabeth Closs

doi:10.1075/tsl.37.11tab

In:The Limits of Grammaticalization
Edited by Anna Giacalone Ramat and Paul J. Hopper
[Typological Studies in Language 37] 1998
► pp. 229–272

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Structural Scope Expansion and Grammaticalization

Whitney Tabor

Elizabeth Closs Traugott

Published online: 15 July 1998

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