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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.Elizabeth Closs Traugott is the author of 'Grammaticalization (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)', published 1993 under ISBN 9780521366557 and ISBN 0521366550.
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