Be to, grammaticalisation et ambiguïté énonciative
As the title indicates, this paper addresses the issues of grammaticalization and ambiguity, and the relation between the two, in the case of the be to construction.As a verbal periphrasis devoid of any lexical element, only to be found in the simple present and simple preterite (*be to, *being to,...
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Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires du Midi
2012-11-01
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Series: | Anglophonia |
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Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/anglophonia/198 |