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The grammaticalisation theory and the generative theory have been commonly perceived as rather incompatible in their background assumptions (cf. Van Kemenade 1999, Fisher and Rosenbach 2000). Accordingly, the process of grammaticalisation has been often seen as inapplicable to the generative account of language. The aim of this paper is to show the reverse. Following the line of reasoning presented in Roberts and Roussou (1999, 2005), I will analyse the development of epistemic promise in English to show that Chomskyan theory can account not only for abrupt, categorial changes, but also for gradual, and ongoing ones.

Grammaticalisation and Generative Theory: the Case of Epistemic "Promise"