The studies collected in this volume deal with pragmatic factors involved in the evolution of grammatical or lexical forms or in the emergence of complex syntac

Annotation The studies collected in this volume deal with pragmatic factors involved in the evolution of grammatical or lexical forms or in the emergence of com

This collective volume focuses on the latest developments in the study of grammaticalization and related processes of change such as degrammaticalization, const

This book presents the state of the art in research on grammaticalization, the process by which lexical items acquire grammatical function, grammatical items ge

This book offers new perspectives into the description of the form, meaning and function of Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers and Modal Particles in a number