It's Like, 'What's Happening in the Evolution of Like?': A Theory of Grammaticalization
In standard American English, the word like has several senses associated with it, the earliest of which dates back to the 14th century according to the OED. Some of these senses, however, reflect more recent developments in the language and suggest that the lexical aspects of the word are changing...
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University of Kansas, Department of Linguistics
1991-01-01
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| Series: | Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/423 |