This book is a cross-linguistic exploration of semantic and functional change in modal
markers. Its approach is broadly functional typological but makes frequent reference to work …

This chapter introduces the main facets of the notion of entrenchment and highlights its role
as a potential mediator between linguistic and psychological approaches to the study of …

Historical discourse analysis has reached maturity in the past 30 years, the result, in part, of
improving sources of, and access to, data, as well as expanded conceptions of both …

In recent years, linguists have increasingly turned to the cognitive sciences to broaden their
investigation into the roots and development of language. With the advent of cognitive …

Rhee, Seongha. 2020. On determinants of discourse marker functions: Grammaticalization
and discourse-analytic perspectives. Linguistic Research 37 (2), 289-325. Recent research …

This book is a contribution to the growing field of historical cognitive linguistics, in particular
historical constructionalist pragmatics. Cognitive linguistics is a perspective on the study of …

This paper assumes that in order to explain rather than describe language change, historical
linguists should not only consider what happens diachronically at the language output level …

Language as a network of dependencies or constructions is a central feature of many
cognitive theories of grammar. In this network, inheritance relationships are used to describe …

Over the years, several studies on grammaticalization have used the contrasting terms
primary and secondary grammaticalization for, roughly speaking, changes from lexical to …

One of the key challenges in linguistics is to account for the link between linguistic
knowledge and our use of language in a way that is both descriptively accurate and …