Syntactic Change: A Minimalist Approach to Grammaticalization

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Parameters, functional heads and language change 2. T elements 3. C elements 4. D elements 5. Theoretical consequences References Index of languages Index of names Index of subjects.

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