Language: en
Pages: 492
Pages: 492
This book seeks to answer the questions: why do grammars change, and why is the rate of such change so variable? A principal focus is on changes in English betw
Language: en
Pages: 108
Pages: 108
This book showcases fresh research into the underexplored territory of complementation through a detailed analysis of gerunds and ‘to’ infinitives involving
Language: en
Pages: 441
Pages: 441
This book contains 15 revised papers originally presented at a symposium at Rosendal, Norway, under the aegis of The Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) at the Norw
Language: en
Pages: 370
Pages: 370
Language Structure and Environment is a broad introduction to how languages are shaped by their environment. It makes the argument that the social, cultural, an
Language: en
Pages: 435
Pages: 435
The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 23rd and 24th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop held at the University of Edinburgh and th
Language: en
Pages: 240
Pages: 240
This book presents the first serious attempt to set out a functional-semantic definition of diachronic transcategorial shift between the major classes noun/nomi
Language: en
Pages: 346
Pages: 346
The eleven selected contributions making up this volume deal with grammatical relations, their coding and behavioral properties, and the change that these prope
Language: en
Pages: 306
Pages: 306
This volume, which emerged from a workshop at the New Reflections on Grammaticalization 4 conference held at KU Leuven in July 2008, contains a collection of pa
Language: en
Pages: 672
Pages: 672
The Handbook of the History of English is a collection of articles written by leading specialists in the field that focus on the theoretical issues behind the f
Language: en
Pages: 294
Pages: 294
Examines the emergence and spread of three types of complements from the Middle English period to the present day
