Bringing together diachronic research from a variety of perspectives, notably typology, formal syntax and semantics, this volume focuses on the interplay of syn
The articles in this volume present original research on the encoding of meaning in a variety of constructions and languages. Many of the contributions take the
All work is work in progress. The ideas developed in this work could be (and probably will be) developed further, revised, and expanded. But it was time to writ
Bringing together diachronic research from a variety of perspectives, notably typology, formal syntax and semantics, this volume focuses on the interplay of syn
This book presents theoretical and experimental analyses of the nature of early verbs. At around the age of two years old, children start to combine words and p