This paper reviews a couple of theoretical and methodological issues in grammaticalization
research, including in particular the relationship of grammaticalization to the …

Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Graeme Trousdale develop an approach to language change
based on construction grammar. Construction grammar is a theory of signs construed at the …

Written by the world-renowned pioneer in the field of modern sociolinguistics, this volume
examines the cognitive and cultural factors responsible for linguistic change, tracing the life …

Lexicalization, a process of language change, has been conceptualized in a variety of ways.
Broadly defined as the adoption of concepts into the lexicon, it has been viewed by …

Grammaticalization is a well-attested process of linguistic change in which a lexical item
becomes a function word, which may be further reduced to a clitic or affix. Proponents of the …

Este livro se propõe a fazer algumas reflexões acerca da natureza da mudança que as
línguas naturais sofrem com o passar do tempo, dos mecanismos pelos quais ela se …

This article proposes a new way of understanding grammatical status and
grammaticalization as distinctive types of linguistic phenomena. The approach is usage …

Discourse markers exhibit a range of grammatical properties that set them apart from many
other lexical and grammatical forms. A number of hypotheses have been proposed to …

Ways of identifying subjectification and especially intersubjectification are discussed using
data from the history of English no doubt and surely. These adverbs arose out of non-modal …