Cambridge Studies in Linguistics Syntactic Change: A Minimalist Approach to Grammaticalization, Book 100, (Hardcover)

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.