This comprehensive new work provides extensive evidence for the essential role of
language contact as a primary trigger for change. Unique in breadth, it traces the spread of …

This book examines several thousand examples of tense-aspect stem participles in the
Rigveda, and the passages in which they appear, in terms of both their syntax and …

Ancient Greek is commonly considered a'synthetic'or'inflectional'language, that is, a
language with a high morpheme-per-word ratio. Nevertheless, already at the earliest stages …

Research on non-configurationality in the ancient IE languages has mostly focused on
discontinuous constituents, while litle atention has been paid to null anaphora. I believe …

Reanalysis is a well‐known process of language change in morpho‐syntax. However, the
semantic composition of sentence meanings can also undergo reanalysis and lead to …

The present paper surveys the diachronic development of the Ancient Greek perfect in four
periods: Mycenaean, Archaic, Classical and post-Classical. At each stage the semantic …

In this book, Guro Nore Fløgstad shows how the Preterit category has expanded in Porteño
Spanish, and sheds new light on the outcome of the competition between Perfects and …

In the present article, I apply Fauconnier's mental spaces theory to the diachronic analysis of
the Ancient Greek periphrastic perfect. I argue that the periphrastic construction started out …

Originally published as the Continuum Companion to Historical Linguistics, this book brings
together a number of leading scholars who provide a combination of different approaches to …

In traditional Ancient Greek grammar, the term constructio praegnans refers to an apparent
syntactic anomaly whereby the idea of motion is missing from either the verb or the …