A case of degrammaticalization in northern Swedish

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“…Doyle (2002:77) argues that the cause for the degrammaticalization of Irish muid was ''a conspiracy of syntactic and phonological factors'' (cf. Norde p. 205 and Rosenkvist, 2010), and it seems plausible that such linguistic conspiracies may be a prerequisite for degrammaticalization -if so, it would not be unexpected that degrammaticalization is a rather infrequent phenomenon.…”