The phenomenon of grammaticalization-the historical process whereby new grammatical
material is created-has attracted a great deal of attention within linguistics. This is an attempt …

All languages change, just as other aspects of human society are constantly changing. This
book is an introduction to the concepts and techniques of diachronic linguistics, the study of …

It is a simple observation that children make mistakes when they learn a language. Yet, to
the trained eye, these mistakes are far from random; in fact, they closely resemble perfectly …

Die ‚Althochdeutsche Grammatik 'von Wilhelm Braune hat sich seit 130 Jahren als
unentbehrliches Hilfsmittel der germanistischen Forschung und Lehre bewährt. Die 16 …

" Professor Heine and Professor Kuteva look for the causes of linguistic change in cultural
and economic exchanges across national and regional boundaries and in the processes …

The issue of the directionality of grammaticalization has attracted considerable attention in
recent years, as illustrated by works such as as Plank (1995), Frajzyngier (1997), Newmeyer …

A conventional wisdom among creolists is that creole is a sociohistorical term only: that
creole languages share a particular history entailing adults rapidly acquiring a language …

Foreigners often say that English language is" easy." A language like Spanish is challenging
in its variety of verb endings (the verb speak is conjugated hablo, hablas, hablamos), and …

If every productive form of linguistic expression can be described by some idealized human
grammar, an individuals's variable linguistic behavior (Weinreich, Labov, & Herzog, 1968) …

Zur» Althochdeutschen Grammatik «von Wilhelm Braune, neu bearbeitet von Ingo
Reiffenstein, kommt als wichtigste Neuerung eine von Richard Schrodt aus den Quellen …