Table of contents
Acknowledgments
VII
The authors’ reflections on Joan
IX
Introduction
XV
Features of some ergative languages that impact on acquisition
1
Constructional pressures on ‘sit’ in Modern Greek
17
know and
understand in ASL: A usage-based study of
grammaticalized topic constructions
59
Traces of demonstrative grammaticalization in Spanish variable subject
expression:
ella ‘she’ vs.
él ‘he’
89
The company that word-boundary sounds keep: The effect of contextual ratio
frequency on word-final /s/ in a sample of Mexican Spanish
107
Cumulative exposure to phonetic reducing environments marks the lexicon:
Spanish /d-/ words spoken in isolation
127
A usage-based account for the historical reflexes of auxiliary
ain’t in African American English
155
Gradient conventionalization of the Spanish expression of ‘becoming’
quedar(se) + ADJ in seven centuries
175
The evidence add ups: An affix shift study of prefabs
199
look up about: Usage-based processes in lexicalization
225
About the authors
247
Index
249
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