This book is an attempt to make sense of the idea that functional categories are the flesh and blood of grammar. From within the context of the principles and parameters framework put forward by Chomsky and others, Jamal Ouhalla develops the argument that much of what we understand by the term grammar and grammatical variation involves functional categories in a crucial way.
This book is an attempt to make sense of the idea that functional categories are the flesh and blood of grammar. From within the context of the princi...