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The diminishing frequency of a grammatical construction, and how to account for it

What is it about?

On the dwindling use over the past few centuries of expressions like BE OBLIGED TO and on how one should go about explaining the disappearance of grammatical constructions. Same way as one should study the appearance of new constructions, it is suggested.

Why is it important?

It advocates a novel approach to historical linguistics.

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