Syntactic Change: A Minimalist Approach to Grammaticalization (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521790567)

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: Ian Roberts, Anna Roussou
ISBN-10: 0521790565
ISBN-13: 9780521790567
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/04/2003
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.33lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.41w x 0.93d