Syntactic Change: A Minimalist Approach to Grammaticalization

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.

Author: Ian Roberts, Anna Roussou
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 09/04/2003
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.33lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.41w x 0.93d
ISBN: 9780521790567

About the Author
Roberts, Ian: - Ian Roberts is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cambridge.Roussou, Anna: - Anna Roussou is Assistant Professor at the University of Patras, Greece.

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