Syntactic Change: A Minimalist Approach to Grammaticalization

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The Light Verb Jungle (2003, background): “Most approaches to changeinvolving verbs have focused on auxiliaries and/or modals (e.g., Lightfoot 1979, Plank 1984, Warner 1993, Denison 1993, Roberts 1993, Roberts and Roussou 1999, Roberts and Roussou 2003).”
A Usage‐Based Account of Constituency and Reanalysis (2009, background): “In generative models of syntax (see, e.g., Lightfoot, 1979; Roberts & Roussou, 2003), structural reanalysis is necessarily abrupt, because it is held that a sequence of words has a unique, discrete constituent analysis.1 In this view, constituents are clearly defined and do not overlap; in a…”
The Interpretability Hypothesis: evidence from wh-interrogatives in second language acquisition (2007, background): “…level of lexical feature specification; in particular, whether a specific feature is spelled out or not in a language (‘lexicalized’ in the terms of Roberts and Roussou, 2003) and how this spell-out takes place (i.e. via Merge or Agree).6 Further cross-linguistic differences may involve the…”
A usage-based theory of grammatical status and grammaticalization (2012, background): “In this respect grammaticalization research may be seen as a challenge in particular to mainstream generative linguistics (as acknowledged by Roberts and Roussou (2003)).”