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What's wrong with grammaticalization: Issues and nonissues

Henning Andersen

1. On the unidirectionality (theory, universal, generalization, hypothesis) idea. 2. Grammaticalization, pragmaticalization, constructionalization. What next? 3. Reconciling semantic and functional accounts of grammatical change. 4. Is there a theory of grammaticalization?

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