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. However, until now no attempt has been made to provide a general account of this phenomenon in terms of a formal the...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Roberts, Ian G.
Other Authors: Roussou, Anna.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Series:Cambridge studies in linguistics ; 100.
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