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Publication details [#53304]
Croft, William. 2010. The origins of grammaticalization in the verbalization of experience. Linguistics 48 (1) : 1–48. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter
Journal WWW
Annotation
Opposing the traditional theory of morphosyntactic change, according to which innovation is rare, this paper argues that grammaticalization, and language change in general, arise from the variation inherent in experience verbalization.