African and Asian perspectives: Grammaticalization of ‘give’

Lord, Carol; Yap, Foong Ha; Iwasaki, Shoichi

doi:10.1075/tsl.49.15lor

In:New Reflections on Grammaticalization
Edited by Ilse Wischer and Gabriele Diewald
[Typological Studies in Language 49] 2002
► pp. 217–235

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Grammaticalization of ‘give’

African and Asian perspectives

Carol Lord | California State University, Long Beach

Foong Ha Yap | Sophia University and Cornell University

Shoichi Iwasaki | University of California, Los Angeles

Published online: 12 April 2002

https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.49.15lor

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