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Constructions in Contact: Constructional perspectives on contact phenomena in Germanic languages
Edited by Hans C. Boas and Steffen Höder
[Constructional Approaches to Language 24] 2018
► pp. 5–36

Construction Grammar and language contact

An introduction

Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Theoretical approaches to language contact phenomena
  • 3.Construction Grammar and Frame Semantics
  • 4.Constructions in contact
  • 5.Overview of the chapters
  • 6.Conclusions
  • Acknowledgment
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 12 December 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/cal.24.01boa
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