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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gelderen, Elly van
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., [2004]
Series:Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 71.
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Grammaticalization.
Economy (Linguistics)
Linguistic change.
Grammaticalisation.
Économie (Linguistique)
Changement linguistique.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Grammaticalization
Linguistic change
Grammaticalisering.
Economie linguistique.
Variation de langage.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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