Grammaticalization and prototype effects
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Sansò, Andrea
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Article
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2011
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG
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English
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The grammaticalization path reflexive > middle > anticausative > passive (> impersonal) has long been recognized as a well-attested pattern in grammar evolution (Kemmer 1993, Cennamo 1993, Wehr 1995, Parry 1998, among many others). Yet, the history of individual constructions of reflexive origin in