The rise of agreement : a formal approach to the syntax and grammaticalization of verbal inflection / Eric Fuss.

This book investigates the historical paths leading from pronouns to markers of verbal agreement and proposes a unified formal account of this grammaticalization process. In opposition to beliefs widely held in the literature, it is argued that new agreement formatives can be coined in a multitude o...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Fuss, Eric.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©2005.
Series:Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 81.
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