This book presents the first serious attempt to set out a functional-semantic definition of diachronic transcategorial shift between the major classes noun/nomi

This book presents the first serious attempt to set out a functional-semantic definition of diachronic transcategorial shift between the major classes noun/nomi

This textbook analyses changes from every area of grammar and addresses recent developments in socio-historical linguistics.

Based on 258 English grammar books, Language Between Description and Prescription investigates nineteenth-century grammar writing relating to actual language ch

For the most part, the papers collected in this volume stern from presentations given at a conference held in Tucson over the weekend of May 31 through June 2,