LINGUIST List 14.629

Tue Mar 4 2003

Books: Linguistic Theories/Syntax:Roberts, Roussou

Editor for this issue: Dina Kapetangianni <dinalinguistlist.org>

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1. jreid, Syntactic Change: Roberts, Roussou

Title: Syntactic Change
Subtitle: Minimalist Approach to Grmmaticalization
Series Title: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 100
			
Publication Year: 2003
			
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 
 http://www.cup.org		 
			
Book URL: http://us.cambridge.org/linguistics
			
 
Author: Ian Roberts, University of Cambridge, Cambrige, U.K. 
Author: Anna Roussou, University of Patras, Rio, Greece 
				

Hardback: ISBN: 0521790565, Pages: 250, Price: $55.00

			
Abstract:

The phenomenon of grammaticalization--the historical process whereby
new grammatical material is created--has attracted a great deal of
attention within linguistics in recent years. This book shows how this
approach leads 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.

Introduction; 1. Parameters, Functional Heads and Language Change;
2. T-elements; 3. C-elements; 4. D-elements; 5. Theoretical
Consequences

Lingfield(s): Linguistic Theories, Syntax
			 
Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)