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Syntactic Variation and Change in Progress: Loss of the Verbal Coda in Topic-Restricting as Far as Constructions.
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Rickford, John.; And Others – Language, 1995
This article examines the variable absence of the verb in "as far as" constructions, which serve as qualifiers or topic restrictors in English. (46 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computational Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Discourse Analysis