Table of contents
List of contributors
Part I Characteristics of Cycles
Cyclical change continued: Introduction
Part II Macro-cycles
Is radical analyticity normal: Implications of Niger-Congo and Southeast Asia for typology and diachronic theory
An analytic-synthetic spiral in the history of English
The interaction between the French subject and object cycles
Part III The Negative Micro-Cycles
The negative existential cycle viewed through the lens of comparative data
Jespersen cycles in the Mayan, Quechuan and Maipurean languages*
Part IV Pronominal, Quantifier, and Modal Micro-cycles
The diachrony of pronominal agreement: In UTE and maybe elsewhere
Modality and gradation: Comparing the sequel of developments in ‘rather’ and ‘eher’
All you need is another ‘Need’: On the verbal NPI cycle in the history of German*
The grammaticalization of 要 Yao and the future cycle from Archaic Chinese to Modern Mandarin*
Author Index
Subject and Language Index
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