Consequences for the nature of constructions: Main clauses are innovative, subordinate clauses are conservative

Bybee, Joan L.

doi:10.1075/z.110.02byb

In:Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse: Essays in honor of Sandra A. Thompson
Edited by Joan L. Bybee and Michael Noonan
[Not in series 110] 2002
► pp. 1–17

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Main clauses are innovative, subordinate clauses are conservative

Consequences for the nature of constructions

Joan L. Bybee | University of New Mexico

Published online: 20 June 2002

https://doi.org/10.1075/z.110.02byb

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