Author : Elly van Gelderen
Release : 1993
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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The Rise of Functional Categories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rise of Functional Categories write by Elly van Gelderen. This book was released on 1993. The Rise of Functional Categories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In recent years, word order has come to be seen, within a Government Binding/Minimalist framework, as determined by functional as well as lexical categories. Within this framework, functional categories are often seen as present in every language without evidence being available in that language. This book contains arguments that even though Universal Grammar makes functional categories available, the language learner must decide whether or not to incorporate them in his or her grammar. For instance, it is shown that English has one (not two as often assumed) functional category between the complementizer and the Negation, but that languages such as Dutch, Swedish, German and Old and Middle English have none. The title of the book can be seen in terms of the direction current research is taking; it can also be seen in terms of the changes that have taken place in English.