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Grammaticalization as economy /

This book provides much detail on the changes involving the grammaticalization of personal and relative pronouns, topicalized nominals, complementizers, adverbs, prepositions, modals, perception verbs, and aspectual markers. It accounts for these changes in terms of two structural economy principles...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gelderen, Elly van
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., [2004]
Colección:Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 71.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Economy
  • The structure of CP and the layer parameter
  • Spec to Head : The rise of the (embedded) CP
  • Late merge : The rise of the split CP
  • More late merge : Heads to higher Heads and Specs to higher Specs
  • The IP, VP-shell, and their layers
  • Changes in modals and have : Competition for ASP-hood
  • Perception verbs and ASPect
  • Aspect : The Tense Aspect Parameter and inner to outer aspect
  • Late merge : Heads to higher Heads
  • The layer parameter and pronominal argument languages
  • Conclusion.