Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective PowerShares says Neil Rackham

says Neil Rackham

cultural history

ranging from the mobilization of large work forces by the old English state to the role of resident hermits and the charitable donations which produced bridge trusts with huge incomes

operations research

Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective PowerShares says Neil RackhamThis volume explores the way in which grammaticalization processes whereby lexical words eventually become markers of grammatical categories converge and differ across various types of language. While grammaticalization at its core is a unidirectional phenomenon, in which the same pathways of change are replicated across languages, certain language types and language areas have distinct preferences with respect to what they grammaticalize and how.