Functions of Language

Editorial
• From the editors
  pp. 137–138
Articles
• The development of the Chinese copula shì construction: A diachronic constructional perspective
  Fangqiong Zhan & Elizabeth Closs Traugott | pp. 139–176
• Two distinct sources – one target: A diachronic contrastive study of the grammaticalization of German scheinen and English seem
  Gabriele Diewald & Katerina Stathi | pp. 177–215
• A diachronic corpus study of prenominal zo’n ‘so a’ in Dutch: Pathways and (inter)subjectification
  Daniël Van Olmen | pp. 216–247
Book reviews
• Donna R. Miller & Paul Bayley (eds.). 2016. Hybridity in Systemic Functional Linguistics: Grammar, text and discursive context
  Reviewed by Tom Bartlett | pp. 248–257
• Simona Pekarek Doehler, Elwys De Stefani & Anne-Sylvie Horlacher (eds.). 2015. Time and emergence in grammar: Dislocation, topicalization and hanging topic in French talk-in-interaction
  Reviewed by Yinmei Li & Yi’na Wang | pp. 258–265
• Elda Weizman & Anita Fetzer (eds.). 2015. Follow-ups in political discourse: Explorations across contexts and discourse domains
  Reviewed by Chaoqun Xie & Ying Tong | pp. 266–274

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