Elizabeth Closs Traugott

Lexicalization and Language Change

Lexicalization, a process of language change, has been conceptualized in a variety of ways. Broadly defined as the adoption of concepts into the lexic...

Grammaticalization

This is a general introduction to grammaticalization, the change whereby lexical terms and constructions come in certain linguistic contexts to serve ...

Constructionalization and Constructional Changes

This book develops an approach to language change based on construction grammar in order to reconceptualize grammaticalization and lexicalization. The...

Linguistics for Students of Literature

...

Ten Lectures on a Diachronic Constructionalist Approach to Discourse Structuring Markers

How do you get from ‘after all those movies’ to ‘I went to a movie after all’?...

A History of English Syntax

A Transformational Approach to the History of English Sentence Structure

...

A History of English Syntax

A Transformatiandl, Aproach to Structure

...