Directive strategies, ie strategies through which the speaker orders someone to do
something, are very frequent in everyday speech, and are particularly subject to processes …

This dissertation offers a grammatical description and analysis of Manda (N. 11), a Bantu
language spoken along Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi) in southern Tanzania. The study focuses …

The Semantics of the Simple Future in Romance: Core Meaning and ParametricVariation Page
1 © Victoria Escandell-Vidal, 2022 | doi:10.1163/9789004468184_003 chapter 2 The Semantics …

This article aims to describe and evaluate some recent accounts of pragmatic aspects of
grammaticalization. It examines inferences that contribute to grammaticalization, the limits of …

This paper considers how ideas developed within relevance theory can be applied in
accounting for language change. It briefly surveys previous relevance-theoretic work on …

Abstract The Tanzanian Bantu language Rangi is unusual in that it exhibits a construction in
which an infinitival verb form precedes an inflected auxiliary. This ordering of the infinitive …

This paper examines death prevention names among the Ibibio in South-eastern Nigeria,
from their structural perspectives. Ibibio death prevention names can generate and maintain …

Abstract We examine the Doubly Inflected Construction of Sicilian (DIC; Cardinaletti and
Giusti 2001, 2003; Cruschina 2013), in which a motion verb V1 from a restricted set is …

The cross-currents of language and culture can be depicted in the use of oral performances
such as proverbs, which are forms of “deeper” communication and means of constructing …

The verbal systems of Spanish and French share a compound and a simple past form (CP
and SP), but their uses differ crosslinguistically. In French, the CP is often used as a …