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Tense-Aspect
The verbal categories of tense and aspect have been studied traditionally from the point of view of their reference to the timing and time-perspective of the speaker's reported …
Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure
A mainstay of functional linguistics has been the claim that linguistic elements and patterns that are frequently used in discourse become conventionalized as grammar. This book …
The Syntax of the Simple Sentence in Proto-Germanic
Limits of Grammaticalization
The earliest use of the term "e;grammaticalization"e; was to refer to the process whereby lexical words of a language (such as English keep in "e;he keeps bees"e;) …
Grammaticalization
This is a general introduction to grammaticalization, the change whereby lexical terms and constructions come in certain linguistic contexts to serve grammatical functions, and, …
Voice: Form and Function
The volume's central concern is grammatical voice, traditionally known as diathesis, and its classical manifestations as Active, Middle, and Passive. While numerous problems in the …
Studies in Descriptive and Historical Linguistics
This volume of articles was prepared in honor of Winfred P. Lehmann on the occasion of his 60th birthday. The papers are presented in two sections: I. Studies in Descriptive …
Syntax of the Simple Sentence in Proto-Germanic
Grammaticalization
Hardback edition This is a general introduction to grammaticalization, the change whereby lexical terms and constructions come in certain linguistic contexts to serve …
Toward Proto-Nostratic
This book represents the culmination of the author's work to date - it incorporates and updates previous articles and adds much new material. This book is not - nor was it ever …
Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1807-1896
Interrogates the development of the world's first international courts of humanitarian justice and the subsequent "liberation" of nearly two hundred thousand Africans in the …
Grammaticalization
This is a general introduction to grammaticalization, the change whereby lexical terms and constructions come in certain linguistic contexts to serve grammatical functions, and, …