The case-studies assembled in these two volumes span a lifetime of research into the diachrony of grammar. That is, into the rise and fall of syntactic construc

While there are languages that code a particular grammatical role (e.g. subject or direct object) in one and the same way across the board, many more languages

Construction Grammar as a framework offers a new perspective on traditional historical questions in diachronic linguistics and language change: how do new const

This book deals with syntax in three dimensions: in part I with the history of grammatical theory, in part II with synchronic aspects of Present-Day English, an

In his foreword to the original edition of this classic of functionalism, typology and diachrony, Dwight Bolinger wrote: "I foresee it as one of the truly prize