How and why do languages change? This new introduction offers a guide to the types of
change at all levels of linguistic structure, as well as the mechanisms behind each type …

This monograph presents the first comprehensive diachronic account of copular and passive
verb constructions in Old and Middle English. Peter Petré analyzes:-The mysterious loss of …

This article provides an analysis—within the framework of Radical Construction Grammar—
of how become developed into a copula 'become'out of an original sense 'arrive', and wax …

In this article, I relate the loss of weorðan in the past tense to the loss of an Old English
grammatical subsystem that encouraged the expression of narrative by bounded sentence …

Studies of the development of compound tense auxiliary selection in Spanish frequently
analyse ser ('to be')+ past participle (PtP) as an anterior construction, and its disappearance …

In this paper we deal with Old English and Old High German copula constructions
combining verbs denoting 'be'and 'become'with past participles, which are traditionally …

La préface d'une thèse doctorale se consacre habituellement à un exposé détaillé des aléas
de la recherche qui précèdent le couronnement ultime de ce travail de longue haleine …

Abstract In Old English, passive‐type constructions involving a copula and a passive
participle could be used to express both events and states. Two different types of copula are …

This article proposes an analysis of the historical changes in the aspectual system of Greek
as a process of grammaticalization and subjectification, thus challenging the traditional view …

This article deals with the transitive construction involving habban and the past participle in
Old English, and focuses on the loss of the adjectival segment of the participial inflection …