No biggie can be a “biggie” : A taxonomical and statistical analysis of the pragmaticalization of no biggie on the basis of pragma-syntactic variation and co-occurring lexical items
This study seeks to explore the pragmaticalization process of (it's) no biggie, through a corpus-based taxonomical and statistical examination. The research study involves (i) elaborating a taxonomy of no biggie constructions by exploring the variability of the pragmatic functions and the syntactic features associated with the construction; (ii) monitoring the links between the taxonomical types o
