Tohru Inoue

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Article

Brinton, Laurel J. and Tohru Inoue 2020 A far from simple matter revisited: The ongoing grammaticalization of far fromLate Modern English: Novel encounters, Kytö, Merja and Erik Smitterberg (eds.), pp. 271–293 | Chapter
In Present-day English far from belongs to a class of constructions (close to, near to, next to) which have undergone grammaticalization and/or constructionalization. The present corpus-based, diachronic study shows that the development of far from appears to be a clear case of grammaticalization,… read more