Syntactic Change: A Minimalist Approach to Grammaticalization

ISBN-13: 9780521066846 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 288 str.

Ian Roberts; Anna Roussou

Opis

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.