Grammaticalization in isolating tonal languages: Phonetic absence as syntactic prominence

Ansaldo, Umberto; Lim, Lisa

doi:10.1075/tsl.59.18ans

In:Up and down the Cline – The Nature of Grammaticalization
Edited by Olga Fischer, Muriel Norde and Harry Perridon
[Typological Studies in Language 59] 2004
► pp. 345–362

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Phonetic absence as syntactic prominence

Grammaticalization in isolating tonal languages

Umberto Ansaldo

Lisa Lim

Published online: 28 May 2004

https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.59.18ans

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