Shared Grammaticalization : With Special Focus on Transeurasian Languages.
Double-negative periphrastic litotes have been for nearly three centuries the usual way to express necessitive predicates in Japanese and Korean. These constructions do not, however, go back to the earliest stages of these languages and should not be invoked as evidence of a possible common origin....
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
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2013
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