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| ISBN: | 9789027294142
9027294143
9789027228055
9027228051
9027228051
1282156438
9781282156432
9786612156434
6612156430
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Rev. version of the author's doctoral dissertation (Frankfort), 2004.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | This book investigates the historical paths leading from pronouns to markers of verbal agreement and proposes a unified formal account of this grammaticalization process. In opposition to beliefs widely held in the literature, it is argued that new agreement formatives can be coined in a multitude of syntactic environments. Still, the individual paths toward agreement are shown to exhibit a set of underlying similarities which are attributed to universal principles that govern the reanalysis of pronominal clitics as exponents of verbal agreement across languages. It is claimed that syntactic p.
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| Other form: | Print version: Fuss, Eric. Rise of agreement. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©2005 9027228051
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