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The rise of agreement : a formal approach to the syntax and grammaticalization of verbal inflection /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins,
©2005.
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| Colección: | Linguistik aktuell ;
Bd. 81. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 of syntactic environments. Still, the individual paths toward agreement are shown to exhibit a set of underlying similarities which are attributed to universal principles that govern the reanalysis of pronominal clitics as exponents of verbal agreement across languages. It is claimed that syntactic p. |
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| Notas: | Rev. version of the author's doctoral dissertation (Frankfort), 2004. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 335 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027294142 9027294143 9789027228055 9027228051 1282156438 9781282156432 9786612156434 6612156430 |
| ISSN: | 0166-0829 ; |