Grammaticalisation of habitual aspect in World Englishes: assessing trajectories, areal patterns and rates of change with synchronic corpora
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DOI: 10.1515/cllt-2024-0064
Abstract: Abstract This paper presents a geographically large-scale, yet structurally fine-grained study on grammaticalisation in World Englishes. Attending to the relatively neglected domain of habitual aspect, we explore structural and areal patterns of innovation or conservatism… read more here.
Keywords: habitual aspect; world englishes; areal patterns; grammaticalisation ... See more keywords