items such as clitics, pronouns, determiners, conjunctions, discourse
particles, auxiliary/light verbs, prepositions, and so on—have been the focus of investigation
in many research areas that include phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics,
pragmatics, discourse function, historical development
Description:
Elsman and Holt discuss in chapter 3 the phenomenon of the grammaticalization
of lexical words into function words that has received much attention in various
fields of linguistics
