TY - BOOK ID - 17875253 TI - The rise of functional categories PY - 1993 SN - 9027227292 9027282420 1283234300 9786613234308 PB - Amsterdam : Benjamins, DB - UniCat KW - Grammar KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Generative grammar. KW - Grammar, Generative KW - Grammar, Transformational KW - Grammar, Transformational generative KW - Transformational generative grammar KW - Transformational grammar KW - Psycholinguistics KW - Linguistics KW - Philology KW - Grammatical categories. KW - Derivation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:17875253 AB - In recent years, word order has come to be seen, within a Government Binding/Minimalist framework, as determined by functional as well as lexical categories. Within this framework, functional categories are often seen as present in every language without evidence being available in that language. This book contains arguments that even though Universal Grammar makes functional categories available, the language learner must decide whether or not to incorporate them in his or her grammar. For instance, it is shown that English has one (not two as often assumed) functional category between the co ER -