Evidentiality, the linguistic encoding of a speaker's or writer's evidence for an asserted
proposition, has begun to receive serious attention from linguists only in the last quarter …

Grammaticalization theory is neither a theory of language nor of language change; its goal is
to describe grammaticalization, that is, the way grammatical forms arise and develop …

Variationist Sociolinguistics: Change, Observation, Interpretation presents a comprehensive,
intermediate level examination of Language Variation and Change, the branch of …

Language demonstrates structure while also showing considerable variation at all levels:
languages differ from one another while still being shaped by the same principles; …

Using data from a variety of languages such as Blackfoot, Halkomelem, and Upper Austrian
German, this book explores a range of grammatical categories and constructions, including …

Martin Hilpert combines construction grammar and advanced corpus-based methodology
into a new way of studying language change. Constructions are generalizations over …

" This book reconstructs what the earliest grammars might have been and shows how they
could have led to the languages of modern humankind." Like other biological phenomena …

Elly van Gelderen provides examples of linguistic cycles from a number of languages and
language families, along with an account of the linguistic cycle in terms of minimalist …

Grammaticalization is a well-attested process of linguistic change in which a lexical item
becomes a function word, which may be further reduced to a clitic or affix. Proponents of the …

This book is a cross-linguistic exploration of semantic and functional change in modal
markers. Its approach is broadly functional typological but makes frequent reference to work …