Diachronic Emergence of Zipf-like Patterns in Construction-Specific Frequency Distributions: A Quantitative Study of the Way Too Construction

The linguistic constituents that come to express path are often co-opted into more abstract schematic constructions through a diachronic process known as constructionalization. This applies to the way too intensifier construction, whose origin I retrace to a former away too construction. Moreover, t...

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Main Author: Quentin Feltgen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 2020-12-01
Series:Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/lexis/4968
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