Grammaticalization as economy:
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Main Author: Gelderen, Elly van (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam John Benjamins Pub. Co. ©2004
Series:Linguistik aktuell Bd. 71
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-306) and indexes
Grammaticalization as Economy; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Notes for the reader; List of tables; Part I; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Part II; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Part III; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Part IV; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; Notes; References; Index; The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today
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. Head Preference expresses that single words, i.e. heads, are used to build structures rather than full phrases, and Late Merge states that waiting as late as possible to merge, i.e. be added to the structure, is preferred over movement. The book also discusses grammar-external processes (e.g. pres
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 318 pages)
ISBN:1588115526
9027227950
9027295328
9781588115522
9789027227959
9789027295323

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