Taking Heine’s (2003) characterization of Grammaticalization as its point of departure, this paper proposes an elementary framework, and corresponding terminology, for the description of the most common types of historical change in grammar (changes in content, content syntax, expression, and morphosyntax) and the types of innovation that give rise to them (neologism, extension, adoption, reanalysis, monolingual and bilingual). These basic conceptual tools of the historical linguist are illustrated with an analytic account of the development of the Russian tense–aspect system, from prehistory through the attested period. The account includes a plausible explication of the remarkable historical reduction in tense–aspect paradigms, from eight in Old Russian through five in Middle Russian to three in the modern language.
2020. Changement linguistique et périodisation du français (pré)classique: deux études de cas à partir des corpus du RCFC. Journal of French Language Studies 30:3 ► pp. 301 ff.
2023. Grammaticalization as Conventionalization of Discursively Secondary Status: Deconstructing the Lexical–Grammatical Continuum. Transactions of the Philological Society 121:2 ► pp. 270 ff.
2008. Die schwache Adjektivflexion im Dänischen und Deutschen. Eine Fingerübung in diachronischer Typologie. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 40:1 ► pp. 23 ff.
Hansen, Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard
2021. From case to topology. NOWELE. North-Western European Language Evolution 74:2 ► pp. 278 ff.
Hansen, Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard & Guus Jan Kroonen
2022. Germanic. In The Indo-European Language Family, ► pp. 152 ff.
2015. Regrammation and paradigmatization: Diachronic analysis of a number of progressive periphrases in French. Journal of French Language Studies 25:2 ► pp. 265 ff.
2022. Dispalatalization of Common Slavic *ri̯ in Ukrainian: The case of family names in -uk- in the Hutsul parish registers. Ukrainska mova :2 ► pp. 110 ff.
Lindschouw, Jan
2013. Evolution and Regrammation in the Mood System: Perspectives from Old, Middle, Renaissance and Modern French. In Research on Old French: The State of the Art [Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 88], ► pp. 123 ff.
Mattiello, Elisa & Wolfgang U. Dressler
2021. A post-loan word formation pattern: Latinate English synthetic compounds. Lingua 253 ► pp. 103029 ff.
2019. Verbal –s in Existential there Sentences. In Linguistic Perspectives on a Variable English Morpheme, ► pp. 237 ff.
Schøsler, Lene
2010. Organization and reorganization of a constructional paradigm: the case of dative two-argument constructions from Latin to Modern French. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 42:1 ► pp. 26 ff.
SCHØSLER, LENE
2015. Grammaticalisation des valeurs d’aspect et de phase? A propos des constructions à verbes supports. Journal of French Language Studies 25:2 ► pp. 239 ff.
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