This is interesting, IMO: Background on Grammaticalization (8) Grammaticalization makes use of the "observation that grammatical morphemes develop gradually out of lexical morphemes or combinations of lexical morphemes with lexical or

The maximum onsets principle isn't universally accepted. See http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/syllabif.htm which describes the syllibification principles used for the Longman Pronunciation Dictionary. Thank you for your reply,Jonathan. But