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...

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Main Author: Fuss, Eric
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©2005.
Series:Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 81.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary: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.
Item Description:Rev. version of the author's doctoral dissertation (Frankfort), 2004.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 335 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789027294142
9027294143
9789027228055
9027228051
1282156438
9781282156432
9786612156434
6612156430
ISSN:0166-0829 ;

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