@inbook{b7cfc2a3de814b759769f4b853413a73,
title = "Grammaticalization and syntax: a functional view",
abstract = "This article analyses the role of grammaticalisation theory in functional-typological syntax. It explains that the role of grammaticalisation theory is to explain how fixed, recurrent constructions develop from transparent, motivated concatenations of words. Since such syntactic, often synchronically arbitrary grammatical structure is characteristic of all but the very freshest pidgin protogrammars, a theory of grammaticalization is essential to the functionalist programme. This article also discusses the origin and nature of syntactic categories and describes complex syntax constructions.",
keywords = "Language in Time and Space (incl Historical Linguistics, Dialectology)",
author = "Scott Delancey",
year = "2011",
doi = "10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199586783.013.0029",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780199586783",
series = "Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
pages = "365--377",
editor = "Heiko Narrogk and Bernd Heine",
booktitle = "The Oxford Handbook of Grammaticalization",
edition = "1",
}