Syntactic Change: A Minimalist Approach to Grammaticalization

by Anna Roussou and Ian Roberts

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521066840
• ISBN13: 9780521066846
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"