Germanic future constructions : a usage-based approach to language change /
This study offers a Construction Grammar approach to the historical development and modern usage of future constructions in English, German, Dutch, Danish, and Swedish. On the basis of corpus data, constructions such as English be going to or German werden are analyzed as symbolic units that convey...
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from EBSCO |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Amsterdam, NL : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2008. |
| Series: | Constructional approaches to language ;
v. 7. |
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