This monograph presents the first comprehensive diachronic account of copular and passive
verb constructions in Old and Middle English. Peter Petré analyzes:-The mysterious loss of …

The diachrony of valency patterns is generally an understudied phenomenon. The present
article investigates anticausativization from a diachronic perspective, highlighting the …

The IE languages developed different strategies for the encoding of the passive function. In
some language branches, the middle voice extended to the passive function to varying …

This article explores the interplay of the event structure template of verbs with the verb's
inherent meaning (the 'root') and the nature of the subject (eg, animacy and control) in …

Three parameters play a role in the spread of the accusative into the functional domains of
the nominative for non-object, core arguments: semantic (the inactive nature of the …

The paper discusses the phenomenon of Late Latin intransitivizations, where a
morphologically active form of a transitive verb is used with a middle-passive function …

This paper explores the role played by impersonal constructions in the rise of active coding
systems, with evidence from Late Latin. It is argued that the spread of accusative arguments …

In the transition from Latin to Early Romance the synthetic passive forms were lost, followed
by a restructuring of the voice system. The reinterpretation of originally perfective passive …

This article discusses some aspects of the reorganization of voice distinctions in the
transition from Latin to Romance, namely the grammaticalization of activity (do/make) and …

Applying the framework of Radical Construction Grammar to diachronic phenomena, the
present paper examines Copular Constructions in Old and Middle English, with special …