Grammaticalization refers to the change whereby lexical terms and constructions serve
grammatical functions in certain linguistic contexts and, once grammaticalized, continue to …

Evolutionary Phonology is a theory of sound patterns which synthesizes results in historical
linguistics, phonetics and phonological theory. In this book, Juliette Blevins explores the …

A Linguistic History of Italian offers a clear and concise explanation of why modern Italian
grammar has become the way it is. It focuses on the effects of historical changes on the …

First published in 1991. The existence of morphonology had been the subject of intense
debate in twentieth-century linguistic theory. Attempts to identify putatively morphonological …

This dissertation addresses the questions raised by two opposite types of interaction
between phonological processes: opacity and globality. Special consideration is given to …

This book considers how language can be appropriately theorized as both a natural and
cultural phenomenon. In reaching his conclusion, Pateman draws on a wide range of work …

This book analyzes 153 languages from a large variety of families to establish a previously
unexplored relationship between phonetically conditioned sound changes such as lenitions …

The Functional Compensation Hypothesis (Hochberg 1986a, b) interprets frequent
expression of pronominal subjects as compensation for frequent deletion of agreement …

Although the influential ways of doing sociolinguistics today may create the impression that it
rests on solid grounds, its conceptual and structural foundations have been the subject of …

Purpose This brief monograph explores the historical motivations for two sets of
phonological changes in some varieties of Western Romance: restructured voicing of …