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Synchronic, diachronic and cross-linguistic perspectives
This book is the first collective volume specifically devoted to the multifaceted phenomenon of intensification, which has been traditionally regarded...
The studies in this volume approach English grammatical patterns in novel ways by interrogating corpora, focusing on patterns in the verb phrase (tens...
(Inter)Subjectification and Directionality
This volume advances our understanding of two highly debated aspects of grammaticalization: its relation to (inter)subjectification and its directiona...
Theoretical and descriptive advances
Recent years saw a growing interest in the study of subjectivity, as the linguistic expression of speaker involvement. Intersubjectivity, defined by T...
Pathways of Change
The book investigates pathways of (inter)subjectification followed by prenominal elements in the English Noun Phrase, by tracing the development of id...
In honour of Kristin Davidse
This volume is intended as a celebration of Kristin Davidse’s work and its impact within the broad traditions of cognitive, functional and usage-bas...
This volume aims to arrive at a fine-grained and grammar-based understanding of the notions of (inter-)subjectivity and (inter-)subjectification in th...
This book examines the historical development of discourse and pragmatic markers across the Romance languages. These markers serve to indicate the org...
Although the Germanic and Romance languages are two branches of the same language family and although both have developed the adjective as a separate ...
Selected Proceedings of the Fifth Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies Conference
The present volume contains selected proceedings from the fifth edition of the Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies (UCCTS) internatio...
In much writing on language change, there is a tacit assumption that change operates on a single source construction to produce an innovative target c...
This textbook introduces and explains the fundamental issues, major research questions, and current approaches in the study of grammaticalization - th...
A Cross-Linguistic Perspective
This book is a cross-linguistic exploration of semantic and functional change in modal markers. With a focus on Japanese and to a lesser extent Chines...
This volume explores phenomena which come under the heading of epistemic modalities and evidentiality in more or less well-known languages (Germanic, ...
Crosslinguistic Investigations of Language Use and Language Change
A basic property of human language is that it unfolds in time; the left and right margin of discourse units do not behave in a symmetrical fashion. Th...
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Methodenreflexion und Beispielanalyse
The book sketches a systematics of non-verbal communication. It contains the following separate chapters: movement potential and expression repertoire...
intersprachliche und intrasprachliche Aspekte
Der Sammelband gibt einen Überblick über die gegenwärtige Forschung zu Kopulasätzen und Kopulaverben. Untersucht werden die Klassifikation von Kop...