Publication details
Secondary Agent Constructions from a Diachronic Perspective
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| Year of publication | 2013 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | The paper traces the emergence of secondary agent constructions (transitive causative constructions with verbs of self-agentive locomotion) in the historical development of English and looks into the factors that underlie their relatively late formation. |