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Discourse-Pragmatic Variation in Context: Eight hundred years of LIKEAlexandra D'Arcy
[Studies in Language Companion Series 187] 2017
► pp. 149–175
Alexandra D'Arcy
[Studies in Language Companion Series 187] 2017
► pp. 149–175
Chapter 7Contextual interfaces
Article outline
- Acquisition of like and ongoing development
- Linguistic theory, sociolinguistic theory and language change
- Counting matters, and matters of counting
- Contextual effects and the community grammar
- Frequent collocations and formulae
- Lexical versus functional material and lessons from syntax
- Summary: Convergence and elaboration
- Concluding remarks
