Usage-based approaches to language change / edited by Evie Coussé, Ferdinand von Mengden.

This article opens with a brief discussion of the fundamental issues of usage, structure, grammaticalization and reanalysis and then introduces the key concept of an empty distinction, which is defined as a conventionalized distinction of expression that has lost its former motivation (semantic or n...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors:	Coussé, Evie, Mengden, Ferdinand von
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014.
Series:	Studies in functional and structural linguistics ; 69.
Subjects:	Language and languages > Usage. Linguistic change. Cognitive grammar. Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)