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The first general introduction to grammaticalization, the processes whereby ordinary lexical items - nouns and verbs - change over time into grammatical elements such as case markers, sentence connectives, and auxiliaries, and whereby grammatical elements in general come into being and decay.Hopper, Paul J. is the author of 'Grammaticalization' with ISBN 9780521366847 and ISBN 0521366844.
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