The considerable divergence in inflectional complexity between the northern and the southern branches of the Wakashan family calls out for an explanation. Both branches are equally rich with regard to ...

The English possessive marker displays properties of both clitic and affix. I argue that synchronically it is, in fact, both, rather than only one or the other or something halfway between. I show ...

The Anthropology Department at the University of Oklahoma has a broadly-based Master's program in biological anthropology, and offers a Ph.D. in Anthropology with an emphasis on Human Health and ...

This rather alarming word does not refer to what might happen to pupils who go to grammar school but to a simple concept in linguistics that goes a long way toward explaining how languages change over ...

Abstract The articles in this volume examine a number of critical issues in grammaticalization studies, including the relationship between grammaticalization and pragmaticalization, subjectification ...

1994 Topics Grammar, Comparative and general -- Grammaticalization, Linguistic change, Grammar, Comparative and general -- Tense, Grammar, Comparative and general -- Aspect, Tense and modality ...

In the grammaticalization path of causative verbs, the existence of the ablative function cannot predict the existence of the allative function, or vice versa. On the contrary, in the ...

ABSTRACT: As a prototypical verb complex in Mandarin, “V + Dào” construction experiences a wide debate across semantics, morphology, syntactics, pragmatics, and grammaticalization as well. This paper ...

Wichmann et al. (2010) described the functions and prosodic realizations of of course in present-day spoken British-English and explored the relationship between prosody and grammaticalization.