This volume focuses on the grammaticalization of the definite article in German. It contains eight empirically-based papers which examine individual stages of t

This groundbreaking collection showcases Jenny Cheshire’s influential work in bringing greater attention to quantitative analysis of socio-grammatical variati

Recent research has shown that proper names morphosyntactically differ from common nouns in many ways. However, little is known about the morphological and synt

This volume intends to fill the gap in the grammaticalization studies setting as its goal the systematic description of grammaticalization processes in genealog

Designed as a contribution to contrastive linguistics, the present volume brings up-to-date the comparison of German with its closest neighbour, Dutch, and othe