Table of contents
Acknowledgements
List of contributors
Synchrony and diachrony: Introduction to a dynamic interface
Part I. The role of analogy and constructions in the synchrony-diachrony interface
Gradualness in language change: A constructional perspective
Gradual change and continual variation: The history of a verb-initial construction in Welsh
Can you literally be scared sick? The role of analogy in the rise of a network of Resultative and Degree Modifier constructions
The reputed sense of be meant to: A case of gradual change by analogy
Gradualness in analogical change as a complexification stage in a language simplification process: A case study from Modern Greek dialects
Part II. Synchronic variation and language change
Semantic maps, for synchronic and diachronic typology
Synchronic gradience and language change in Latin genitive constructions
Double agreement in the Alpine languages: An intermediate stage in the development of inflectional morphemes
On variation in gender agreement: The neutralization of pronominal gender in Dutch
Synchronic Variation and Grammatical Change: The case of Dutch double gender nouns
A case study on the relationship between grammatical change and synchronic variation: The emergence of tipo[-N] in Italian
Grammaticalization in the present – The changes of modern Swedish typ
Part III. Gradualness in language change
Gradualness in change in English (augmented) absolutes
Grammatical encoding of referentiality in the history of Hungarian
Gradualness in contact-induced constructional replication: The Abstract Possession construction in the Circum-Mediterranean area
Binding Hierarchy and peculiarities of the verb potere in some Southern Calabrian varieties
Author index
Subject index
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