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GRAMMATICALIZATION, EMERGENT CONSTRUCTIONS, AND THE NOTION OF “NEWNESS” Elizabeth Closs Traugott Stanford University, traugott@ 1. Introduction Earlier versions of this paper were given at Rice University, Houston (March 2006), (DELS1 in Manchester (April 2006), CSDL at the University of California, San Diego (November 2006), and at HDSL at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque (November 2006). Many thanks to members of the audiences for comments, most particularly to Graeme Trousdale and Suzanne Kemmer. Needless to say, they do not necessarily agree with my analysis, and all errors of i