Syntactic Change: A Minimalist Approach to Grammaticalization

Syntactic Change: A Minimalist Approach to Grammaticalization
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr | 2003 | ISBN-10: 0521790565 | ISBN-13: 978 0521790567 | English | True File type: PDF | 288 pages | 1.35 mb

The phenomenon of grammaticalizationthe historical process whereby new grammatical material is createdhas 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.

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"a welcome and unique contribution to the vast body of research on grammaticalization. It offers a perspective different from the more functionalist or cognitivist perspective one usually finds and it is well-organized, well-written, and well-argued. This work is a must-read for anyone seriously interested in the nature of syntactic change." IJGLSA



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