What is it about?
The question of whether a general decline in the use of a grammatical construction can be attributed to diminished use by individual speakers in the course of their lifetime.
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Why is it important?
Its focus on disappearing constructions complements research on individual speakers' contribution to the creation of new conventionalized grammar.
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This page is a summary of: Individual differences in the decline of the Deontic nci construction, Cognitive Linguistic Studies, May 2022, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/cogls.00088.noe.
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