Grammaticalization and lexicalization are at the heart of first language acquisition. Understanding how these processes begin and evolve is a major challenge fo

This book presents a critical assessment of research on grammaticalization, a central element in the process by which grammars are created. Leading scholars dis

Developmental research has long focused on regularities in language acquisition, minimizing factors that might be responsible for variation. Although researcher

The crosslinguistic studies of the early developmental stages of number, case, and gender in twelve typologically different languages with eight genetic affilia

The study of grammaticalization raises a number of fundamental theoretical issues pertaining to the relation of langue and parole, creativity and automatic codi