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On the disappearance of the Dutch BE SAID TO construction in the course of the (long) 19th century.
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The paper introduces "constructional attrition" as an area of investigation in diachronic construction grammar. It is an expanded adaptation of Colleman & Noël (2009), Gezegd worden + te-infinitief: een verouderde evidentiële constructie. [Dutch gezegd worden (‘be said to’) + te-infinitive: an archaic evidential construction.] Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde [Journal for Dutch Language and Literature] 125, 4: 385-403. (downloadable from http://www.tntl.nl/index.php/tntl/article/view/96)
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This page is a summary of: The Dutch evidential NCI, Journal of Historical Pragmatics, February 2012, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/jhp.13.1.01col.
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