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Newmeyer, Frederick J. – Language Sciences, 2001
Grammaticalization is often regarded in the literature as a distinct process requiring explanatory machinery unique to its own domain. Argues, on the contrary, that grammaticalization is simply a cover term for certain syntactic, semantic, and phonetic changes, all of which apply independently of each other. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Grammar, Morphemes, Phonetics