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This book explores the idea that functional categories are the 'flesh and blood of grammar'. from within the context of the Principles and Parameters framework, Jamal Ouhalla develops the argument that much of what we understand by the terms grammar and grammatical variation involves functional categories in a crucial way. His main thesis is that most, if not all, of the information which determines the major grammatical processes and relations (movement, agreement, case, etc.) and consequently parametric (or crosslinguistic) variation is associated with functional categories. By identifying parameters with a limited set of lexical properties associated with a well-defined group of functional categories, the book offers a new and highly constrained version of the theory of Lexical Parametrization.Ouhalla, Jamal is the author of 'Functional Categories and Parametric Variation' with ISBN 9780415056410 and ISBN 0415056411.
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