Mechanisms of Change in Grammaticization: The Role of Frequency

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A Phrasal Expressions List (2012, background): “This may be a reflection of a tendency for the most frequently recurring word combinations to sometimes become ‘grammaticized’ (e.g. Bybee 2003), often losing compositionality.”
The role of lexical frequency in syntactic variability: Variable subject personal pronoun expression in Spanish (2012, background): “An additional effect of collocation is the apparent generalization of the effects of frequently occurring contexts to the lexical items that occur in them (see Bybee 2003).”
What Do We (Think We) Know About Formulaic Language? An Evaluation of the Current State of Play (2012, background): “However, formulaicity seems to exercise its own dynamic force on the shape of languages, as most powerfully exemplified in the assertion that it is the cause of the emergence of grammar (Booij, 2010; Bybee, 2003; Bybee & Cacoullos, 2009).”
Frequency effects in language acquisition, language use, and diachronic change (2007, background): “As has been amply demonstrated in the literature, linguistic expressions that undergo grammaticalization tend to lose some of their phonetic substance and/or their pragmatic and semantic force (cf. Traugott 1989; Bybee 2003).”