This book examines the grammatical changes that took place in the transition from Latin to
the Romance languages. The emerging language underwent changes in three fundamental …

This dissertation proposes a new approach to case. It unifies its syntax, morphology and
semantics in a simple, fine-grained and restrictive picture. One of the assumptions frequently …

Elly van Gelderen provides examples of linguistic cycles from a number of languages and
language families, along with an account of the linguistic cycle in terms of minimalist …

Independent clauses that are semantically related to each other tend to become structurally
connected over time. A coordinator such as and can be used to connect two independent …

The book traces the evolution of the English verb-particle construction ('phrasal verb') from
Indo-European and Germanic up to the present. A contrastive survey of the basic semantic …

From the evidence of the earliest Indo-European documents, it is obvious that all the modern
Indo-European languages show, in varying degrees, the result of a typological revolution …

Welche Präpositionen gibt es in der deutschen Gegenwartssprache? Wie sehen sie aus?
Welche Varianten können sie aufweisen bezüglich Stellung, Rektion und Orthographie …

The paper deals with verb-particle constructions in Italian, ie complex predicates formed by
a verbal base and a modifying post-verbal particle. In recent years a lot of interest has been …

In many languages across the world, verbs reporting speech, thoughts and perceptions
(also referred to as quotative verbs) grammaticalise into quote markers and/or …

Particle verbs (combinations of two words but lexical units) are a notorious problem in
linguistics. Is a particle verb like look up one word or two? It has its own entry in dictionaries …