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Constructional variation and change in N-is focaliser constructions

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2022
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Hundt, M. (2022). Constructional variation and change in N-is focaliser constructions. In L. Sommerer & E. Keizer (Eds.), English Noun Phrases from a Functional-Cognitive Perspective : Current issues (No. 221; Issue 221, pp. 206–233). John Benjamins Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.221.06hun

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This paper revisits the emergence of N-is focaliser constructions. It is the first to systematically use qualitative evidence from the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) and Early English Books Online (EEBO) to establish the chronology of developments from a full clause to a parenthetical. In a second step, diachronic evidence from the Late Modern English Corpus of Historical American English (COHA) is used for a quantitative, variationist study of constructional change in the Late Modern period. The relevant stages for this are determin

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  • Hundt, Marianne

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  • Sommerer, Lotte
  • Keizer, Evelien

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English Noun Phrases from a Functional-Cognitive Perspective : Current issues

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Amsterdam

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206

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233

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English

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2022-01

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2022-01-11

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Studies in Language Companion Series

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0165-7763

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9789027210173

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Hundt, M. (2022). Constructional variation and change in N-is focaliser constructions. In L. Sommerer & E. Keizer (Eds.), English Noun Phrases from a Functional-Cognitive Perspective : Current issues (No. 221; Issue 221, pp. 206–233). John Benjamins Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.221.06hun

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