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Publication details [#44924]

Macaulay, Ronald. 2006. Pure grammaticalization: The development of a teenage intensifier. Language Variation and Change 18 (3) : 267–283.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
grammaticalization | language change | sociolinguistics | speech community | teenager
Place, Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Journal WWW
journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper explores the impact of an adolescent speech intensifier on linguistic change in Glasgow's working-class speech community.