Grammaticalization as economy /
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...
| Основен автор: | Gelderen, Elly van. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
℗♭2004.
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| Серия: |
Linguistik aktuell ;
Bd. 71. |
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=253153 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Grammaticalization as economy. |
| Резюме: |
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. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xiv, 318 pages) : illustrations. |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-306) and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
9789027295323 9027295328 9027227950 9789027227959 1588115526 9781588115522 |
| ISSN: |
0166-0829 ; |