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Showing posts with label grammaticalisation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grammaticalisation. Show all posts
Monday, 13 March 2017

That's not a dumb question, innit

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In my MA syntax class this week we were talking about innit  and how it's going from being a tag question to a kind of discourse particl...
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Saturday, 20 August 2011

You literally take them literally

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Literally  gets a lot of bad press. It's a word in a state of confusion. It's busy getting a new meaning as a kind of intensifier, b...
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