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...
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| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
2004
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
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