Morphosyntactic Change: Functional And Formal Perspectives hardcover english - 01-03-2007

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Book Subtitle	Functional And Formal Perspectives
Editorial Review	An important book that deserves critical reading and careful thought. It will bring to a higher level current debates on analogy, gradualness, gradieElizabeth Cross Thraugott Functions of Languages I found Fischer's evaluation of grammaticalization theory enlightening...work is ambitious, wide ranging undertaking, and is a valuable contribution to the limited but growing body of research that works towards bringing together teo seemingly disparate approaches to language change. * Johanna L. Wood Diachronica * It is clear that this is a most welcome, challenging and insightful book, which is undoubtedly required reading for anyone interested in the processes of morphosyntactic change. * Graeme Trousdale, Folia Linguistica *
About the Author	Olga Fischer is Professor of Germanic Linguistics at the University of Amsterdam, where her PhD thesis Syntactic Change and Causation: Developments in Infinitival Constructions in English was accepted in 1990. She is a contributor to the Cambridge History of the English Language (CUP 1992), co-author of The Syntax of Early English (CUP 2000), and co-editor of Form Miming Meaning and Pathways of Change (Benjamins 2000 and 2001).
Publication Date	01-03-2007
Number of Pages	398

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