Study on the Diachronic Grammaticalization of Like and Its Variants from Corpus-linguistic Perspective
The goal of this study is to look into the diachronic history of the word “like” and its forms “likely,” “like to,” “feel like,” and “would like to,” among others, during the grammaticalization process. The varieties of “like” and their historical trend of grammaticalization are shown in statistics from...
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