Syntactic Change: A Minimalist Approach to Grammaticalization - Paperback

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: Anna Roussou
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Jun 19, 2008
• | Number of Pages: 288 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0521066840
• | ISBN-13: 9780521066846