" 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 …

Italian is a Romance language, spoken in Italy–including the Republic of San Marino and
the Vatican City–as well as in the Italophone canton Ticino and in the canton Grisons, in …

In this chapter I descend the conceptual ladder from Bernd Heine's definition of
grammaticalization and the change types of which it is comprised to the innovation types that …

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Auxiliary Selection in Spanish Gradience, gradualness, and conservation Malte Rosemeyer …

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

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 Norman French dialect Guernésiais of the Channel Island Guernsey distinguished
traditionally between the comitative preposition dauve '(together) with'and the instrumental …

Few syntactic phenomena are relevant to as many areas of linguistic theory as auxiliary
selection–the alternation between auxiliaries in periphrastic constructions. Standing at the …

A grammaticalization process, by which an item shifts from lexicon to grammar, is by
definition a cline or a continuum. Consequently, items undergoing grammaticalization …

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 …