TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ledgeway, Adam,  ed.
AU  - Ledgeway,Adam
AU  - Roberts,Ian G.
TI  -  Cambridge Handbook of historical syntax 
T2  - Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
SN  - 9781107049604 (hardback)
U1  - 415 23
KW  - Grammar, Comparative and general
KW  - Syntax
KW  - Handbooks, manuals, etc
KW  - Grammaticalization
KW  - Historical linguistics
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "Syntax is an indispensable part of the study of grammaticalization but initially it was backgrounded in comparison to the above-mentioned fields. This has something to do with the intellectual environment in which modern grammaticalization studies emerged. The study of grammaticalization was part of a movement that revolted against the overwhelming dominance of generative linguistics in theoretical linguistics of the 1960s and early 1970s, which seemingly tried to reduce the study of language to the statement of syntactic (and, perhaps, phonological) rules. Generative syntax was perceived as the extreme off-shoot of structuralism, and scholars were looking for paradigms countering or offering an alternative to structuralism and structuralist analysis"--
ER  -