This book deals with expressions like English myself, yourself, himself and so on, and
German selbst from a perspective of language comparison. It is the first book-length study of …

The study of the English language has a lengthy history. The second half of the 18th century
saw a phenomenal increase in the number of published grammars of the vernacular …

The article discusses the distribution and meaning of 'locally free reflexives'('untriggered
reflexives','viewpoint reflexives','perspective logophors') in English. After a thorough …

This paper presents a historical Arabic corpus named HAC. At this early embryonic stage of
the project, we report about the design, the architecture and some of the experiments which …

A central question in historical linguistics is how subordination emerges. Many linguists
have hypothesized that diachronically subordinate constructions start off with intonational …

The intensifying function of the adverb wonder can be traced back to Old English, declining
towards the end of the sixteenth century, with some sporadic instances throughout the …

Entre las corrientes más antiguas de cambio que es posible observar en la diacronía del
español, se encuentra un fenómeno que empezó a ser conocido bajo la etiqueta de “sujeto …

Some German particles appear to change their meaning according to their accented or
unaccented status. This is the case with selbst 'self/even', wieder 'again', auch 'too'and schon …

It took me a while to conceive, research and finish my PhD project. This means that during
that period I had numerous opportunities to meet a lot of wonderful people who contributed …

Modern English stands out from the rest of the Germanic languages with respect to reflexivity
and intensification. First, it only has one kind of reflexive, a morphologically complex …