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Syntactic Change: A Minimalist Approach to Grammaticalization

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The phenomenon of grammaticalization--the historical process whereby new grammatical material is created--has attracted a great deal of attention within linguistics in recent years. This book shows how this approach leads to a number of important conceptual and theoretical issues concerning the nature of functional categories and the form of parameters, as well as the relation of both of these to language change.

Language: English

Pages: 288

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Release: September 04, 2003

ISBN: 0521790565

ISBN 13: 9780521790567

Syntactic Change: A Minimalist Approach to Grammaticalization

3.2/5 ( ratings)

The phenomenon of grammaticalization--the historical process whereby new grammatical material is created--has attracted a great deal of attention within linguistics in recent years. This book shows how this approach leads to a number of important conceptual and theoretical issues concerning the nature of functional categories and the form of parameters, as well as the relation of both of these to language change.

Language: English

Pages: 288

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Release: September 04, 2003

ISBN: 0521790565

ISBN 13: 9780521790567

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