Constructions , grammatical status and
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6 This paper critically explores the question of what it means for a 7 construction to be grammatical. The paper engages with some of the 8 observations made in the grammaticalisation literature that elements in 9 grammatical constructions undergo morphologization, and aims to show 10 that grammatical status and morphologization need not be aligned. A 11 number of parameters along which the grammatical status of a multiword 12 expressions can vary are proposed and data illustrating different aspects 13 of these parameters are discussed in detail. The data are used to argue 14 that grammatical status is complex and multifaceted and linked not only 15 to the formal properties of a construction, but also to its semantics and 16 the relationship it has with other grammatical forms (e.g. inflected forms) 17 in a given language. 18
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