Ian Roberts

Syntactic Change (eBook, PDF)

A Minimalist Approach to Grammaticalization

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Produktbeschreibung

The phenomenon of grammaticalization - the historical process whereby new grammatical material is created - has attracted a great deal of attention within linguistics. This is an attempt to provide a general account of this phenomenon in terms of a formal theory of syntax. Using Chomsky's Minimalist Program for linguistic theory, Roberts and Roussou show how this approach gives rise 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. Drawing on examples from a wide range of languages, they construct a general account of grammaticalization with implications for linguistic theory and language acquisition.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511060830
• Artikelnr.: 38201932

Autorenporträt

Ian Roberts is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cambridge.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Parameters, functional heads and language change
2. T elements
3. C elements
4. D elements
5. Theoretical consequences
References
Index of languages
Index of names
Index of subjects.