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Publication details [#1701]

Breckenridge, Janet and Auli Hakulinen. 1976. Cycle and after. Papers from the Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 12 (Parasession on diachronic syntax) : 50–68.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

functionality | syntactic change

Language as a subject

Finnish

Annotation

One of the conclusions that B. and H. draw from syntactic changes in Finnish is that historical changes seem to leave discourse functions untouched (which provides for a strong argument for the use of functional notions in syntax).