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Negation in Uralic Languages

Author : Matti Miestamo
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027268649
Total Pages : 667 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Negation in Uralic Languages written by Matti Miestamo and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The grammaticalized expression of negation is a linguistic universal. This volume deals with negation in the Uralic language family in a typological perspective. As in no other major language family before, a comprehensive typological questionnaire provides the basis for the chapters documenting negation in 17 languages. Most of them are endangered. The chapters highlight negative auxiliary verbs—the special Uralic feature—and their ways of combining with the rich inventory of other negators in different types of clauses, as well as negative replies, negative indefinites, abessives/caritives/privatives, scope, polarity and emphatic negation. Selected aspects of negation, such as negative indefinites, negation of non-verbal predicates and information structure, are discussed in more detail in five further chapters. The book brings new typologically informed perspectives on negation in the Uralic family, and it provides valuable data and insights for any linguist working on negation.

The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages

Author : Marianne Bakró-Nagy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191080284
Total Pages : 960 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages by : Marianne Bakró-Nagy

Download or read book The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages written by Marianne Bakró-Nagy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-24 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers the most comprehensive and wide-ranging treatment available today of the Uralic language family, a group of languages spoken in northern Eurasia. While there is a long history of research into these languages, much of it has been conducted within several disparate national traditions; studies of certain languages and topics are somewhat limited and in many cases outdated. The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages brings together leading scholars and junior researchers to offer a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the internal relations and diversity of the Uralic language family, including the outlines of its historical development, and the contacts between Uralic and other languages of Eurasia. The book is divided into three parts. Part I presents the origins and development of the Uralic languages: the initial chapters examine reconstructed Proto-Uralic and its divergence, while later chapters provide surveys of the history and codification of the three Uralic nation-state languages (Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian) and the Uralic minority languages from Baltic Europe to Siberia. This part also explores questions of endangerment, revitalization, and language policy. The chapters in Part II offer individual structural overviews of the Uralic languages, including a number of understudied minority languages for which no detailed description in English has previously been available. The final part of the book provides cross-Uralic comparative and typological case studies of a range of issues in phonology, morphology, syntax, and the lexicon. The chapters explore a number of topics, such as information structure and clause combining, that have traditionally received very little attention in Uralic studies. The volume will be an essential reference for students and researchers specializing in the Uralic languages and for typologists and comparative linguists more broadly.

The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean

Author : David Willis
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191667978
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Book Synopsis The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean by : David Willis

Download or read book The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean written by David Willis and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book in a two-volume comparative history of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. The work integrates typological, general, and theoretical research, documents patterns and directions of change in negation across languages, and examines the linguistic and social factors that lie behind such changes. The first volume presents linked case studies of particular languages and language groups, including French, Italian, English, Dutch, German, Celtic, Slavonic, Greek, Uralic, and Afro-Asiatic. Each outlines and analyses the development of sentential negation and of negative indefinites and quantifiers, including negative concord and, where appropriate, language-specific topics such as the negation of infinitives, negative imperatives, and constituent negation. The second volume (to be pubished in 2014) will offer comparative analyses of changes in negation systems of European and north African languages and set out an integrated framework for understanding them. The aim of both is a universal understanding of the syntax of negation and how it changes. Their authors develop formal models in the light of data drawn from historical linguistics, especially on processes of grammaticalization, and consider related effects on language acquisition and language contact. At the same time the books seek to advance models of historical syntax more generally and to show the value of uniting perspectives from different theoretical frameworks.

The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean

Author : Anne Breitbarth
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199602549
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Book Synopsis The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean by : Anne Breitbarth

Download or read book The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean written by Anne Breitbarth and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-03-25 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second book in a two-volume comparative history of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. The work integrates typological, general, and theoretical research, documents patterns and directions of change in negation across languages, and examines the linguistic and social factors that lie behind such changes. The aim of both volumes is to set out an integrated framework for understanding the syntax of negation and how it changes. While the first volume (OUP, 2013) presented linked case studies of particular languages and language groups, this second volume constructs a holistic approach to explaining the patterns of historical change found in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean over the last millennium. It identifies typical developments found repeatedly in the histories of different languages and explores their origins, as well as investigating the factors that determine whether change proceeds rapidly, slowly, or not at all. Language-internal factors such as the interaction of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and the biases inherent in child language acquisition, are investigated alongside language-external factors such as imposition, convergence, and borrowing. The book proposes an explicit formal account of language-internal and contact-induced change for both the expression of sentential negation ('not') and negative indefinites ('anyone', 'nothing'). It sheds light on the major ways in which negative systems develop, on the nature of syntactic change, and indeed on linguistic change more generally, demonstrating the insights that large-scale comparison of linguistic histories can offer.

Strict Negative Concord in Slavic and Finno-Ugric

Author : Gréte Dalmi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110754835
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Strict Negative Concord in Slavic and Finno-Ugric written by Gréte Dalmi and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expressing negation is a universal property of all human languages. There is considerable variation, however, in the exact ways negation materializes cross-linguistically. Strict Negative Concord differs both from the Negative Polarity Item strategy and the Asymmetric Negative Concord strategy in that the sentence becomes negative only if the sentence negator is overtly expressed in it, irrespective of how many negative expressions are used. The central aim of this book is to describe Strict Negative Concord in some Slavic and Finno-Ugric languages. In particular, the volume gives an insight into the forms Strict Negative Concord manifests itself in Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovenian (Slavic), Finnish, Hungarian, Mari (Finno-Ugric) and the closely related Selkup (Samoyedic) to a wide linguistic community. It aims to create a platform for comparison with similar phenomena in well-described European languages.

The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean

Author : David Willis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199602530
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Book Synopsis The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean by : David Willis

Download or read book The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean written by David Willis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first of a two-volume comparative history of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. It examines the development of sentential negation and negative indefinites and quantifiers in languages and language groups such as Italian, English, Dutch, German, Celtic, Slavonic, Greek, Uralic, and Afro-Asiatic.

Standard Negation

Author : Matti Miestamo
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110185792
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Standard Negation written by Matti Miestamo and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2005 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a cross-linguistic study of clausal negation based on a systematic language sample. This book discusses methodological issues, especially sampling, and typologizes standard negation by paying attention to structural differences between affirmatives and negatives.

The Negative Existential Cycle

Author : Ljuba Veselinova
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3961103399
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (611 download)

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Download or read book The Negative Existential Cycle written by Ljuba Veselinova and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on 2022-12-20 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1991, William Croft suggested that negative existentials (typically lexical expressions that mean ‘not exist, not have’) are one possible source for negation markers and gave his hypothesis the name Negative Existential Cycle (NEC). It is a variationist model based on cross-linguistic data. For a good twenty years following its formulation, it was cited at face-value without ever having been tested by (historical)-comparative data. Over the last decade, Ljuba Veselinova has worked on testing the model in a comparative perspective, and this edited volume further expands on her work. The collection presented here features detailed studies of several language families such as Bantu, Chadic and Indo-European. A number of articles focus on the micro-variation and attested historical developments within smaller groups and clusters such as Arabic, Mandarin and Cantonese, and Nanaic. Finally, variation and historical developments in specific languages are discussed for Ancient Hebrew, Ancient Egyptian, Moksha-Mordvin (Uralic), Bashkir (Turkic), Kalmyk (Mongolic), three Pama-Nyungan languages, O’dam (Southern Uto-Aztecan) and Tacana (Takanan, Amazonian Bolivia). The book is concluded by two chapters devoted to modeling cyclical processes in language change from different theoretical perspectives. Key notions discussed throughout the book include affirmative and negative existential constructions, the expansion of the latter into verbal negation, and subsequently from more specific to more general markers of negation. Nominalizations as well as the uses of negative existentials as standalone negative answers figure among the most frequent pathways whereby negative existentials evolve as general negation markers. The operation of the Negative Existential Cycle appears partly genealogically conditioned, as the cycle is found to iterate regularly within some families but never starts in others, as is the case in Bantu. In addition, other special negation markers such as nominal negators are found to undergo similar processes, i.e. they expand into the verbal domain and thereby develop into more general negation markers. The book provides rich information on a specific path of the evolution of negation, on cyclical processes in language change, and it show-cases the historical-comparative method in a modern setting.

Endangered Languages of Northeast Asia

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004503501
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Endangered Languages of Northeast Asia written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-12-28 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting and up-to date book on endangered languages of Northeast Asia both from the emic and etic perspective.

The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology

Author : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316790665
Total Pages : 1661 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (167 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology by : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology written by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-30 with total page 1661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linguistic typology identifies both how languages vary and what they all have in common. This Handbook provides a state-of-the art survey of the aims and methods of linguistic typology, and the conclusions we can draw from them. Part I covers phonological typology, morphological typology, sociolinguistic typology and the relationships between typology, historical linguistics and grammaticalization. It also addresses typological features of mixed languages, creole languages, sign languages and secret languages. Part II features contributions on the typology of morphological processes, noun categorization devices, negation, frustrative modality, logophoricity, switch reference and motion events. Finally, Part III focuses on typological profiles of the mainland South Asia area, Australia, Quechuan and Aymaran, Eskimo-Aleut, Iroquoian, the Kampa subgroup of Arawak, Omotic, Semitic, Dravidian, the Oceanic subgroup of Austronesian and the Awuyu-Ndumut family (in West Papua). Uniting the expertise of a stellar selection of scholars, this Handbook highlights linguistic typology as a major discipline within the field of linguistics.

Standard Negation

Author : Matti Miestamo
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110197634
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Standard Negation written by Matti Miestamo and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-08-22 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first cross-linguistic study of clausal negation based on an extensive and systematic language sample. Methodological issues, especially sampling, are discussed at length. Standard negation – the basic structural means languages have for negating declarative verbal main clauses – is typologized from a new perspective, paying attention to structural differences between affirmatives and negatives. In symmetric negation affirmative and negative structures show no differences except for the presence of the negative marker(s), whereas in asymmetric negation there are further structural differences, i.e. asymmetries. A distinction is made between constructional and paradigmatic asymmetry; in the former the addition of the negative marker(s) is accompanied by further structural differences in comparison to the corresponding affirmative, and in the latter the correspondences between the members of (verbal etc.) paradigms used in affirmatives and negatives are not one-to-one. Cross-cutting the constructional-paradigmatic distinction, asymmetric negation can be further divided into subtypes according to the nature of the asymmetry. Standard negation structures found in the 297 sample languages are exemplified and discussed in detail. The frequencies of the different types and some typological correlations are also examined. Functional motivations are proposed for the structural types – symmetric negatives are language-internally analogous to the linguistic structure of the affirmative and asymmetric negatives are language-externally analogous to different asymmetries between affirmation and negation on the functional level. Relevant diachronic issues are also discussed. The book is of interest to language typologists, descriptive linguists and to all linguists interested in negation.

Approaches to Predicative Possession

Author : Gréte Dalmi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350062480
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Approaches to Predicative Possession written by Gréte Dalmi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses existential and possessive constructions in two important, yet under-studied, language families, Slavic and Finno-Ugric. Using data from the Slavic languages of Polish, Belarusian and Russian, and the Finno-Ugric languages of Finnish, Hungarian, Meadow Mari, Komi-Permiyak and Udmurt, as well as the closely related Selkup of the Samoyedic family, the chapters in this volume analyse predicative possession in current syntactic terms. Seeking an answer to the theoretical question of whether BE-possessives and HAVE-possessives are just accidental values of the 'Possessive Parameter' or are intrinsically related, this book takes a comparative approach to a whole range of syntactic and semantic phenomena that appear in these constructions, including the definiteness restriction, genitive of negation, person/number agreement, argument structure and extractability. The individual case studies can be easily integrated into the Principles & Parameters framework in terms of parametric variation. Approaches to Predicative Possession is an important contribution to our understanding of predicative possession across languages, with findings that can be fruitfully extended to other language families. It is an equally useful source of information for theoretical linguists, typologists, and graduate students of linguistics.

The Cognitive Variation of Semantic Structures

Author : Prakash Mondal
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003862594
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Cognitive Variation of Semantic Structures written by Prakash Mondal and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the cognitive constraints and principles of variation in structures of linguistic meaning across languages. It unifies cognitive-semantic representations with formal-semantic representations to make a unique contribution to the study of typological generalizations and universals in natural language semantics. This unified approach not only helps reveal why semantic structures have the observed variation they have but also sheds light on the compelling cognitive and formal regularities and patterns in the variation of linguistic semantics. The book also advances the general principles of a cognitively oriented semantic typology. Lucid and topical, the book will be an indispensable resource for students and researchers of language typology, linguistics, cognitive linguistics and semantics. It will also be of interest to theoretical linguists of both cognitivist and formalist schools.

Finnisch-Ugrische Mitteilungen Band 47

Author : Cornelius Hasselblatt
Publisher : Helmut Buske Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3967694089
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Finnisch-Ugrische Mitteilungen Band 47 written by Cornelius Hasselblatt and published by Helmut Buske Verlag. This book was released on 2024-01-04 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INHALT Originalia - Béres, Mátyás: Male–female opposition in Mansi - Bradley, Jeremy: Non cogito, ergo non sum: Existenz jenseits 3.prs.ind im Uralischen - Holopainen, Sampsa: Development of Proto-Uralic word-initial *ä in Hungarian: reassessing the etymological evidence - Muravyev, Nikita – Daria Zhornik: Passive in Ob-Ugric: information structure and beyond - Vojter, Kitti: The functions of inferential evidential in first and second person in Nganasan - Wagner-Nagy, Beáta: Events of giving and getting in Samoyedic languages Diskussion und kritik - Blokland, Rogier: Winkler, Eberhard & Pajusalu, Karl 2016. Salis-Livisch I. J.A. Sjögrens Manuskript. Ediert, glossiert und übersetzt von Eberhard Winkler und Karl Pajusalu. Veröffentlichungen der Societas Uralo-Altaica Band 88. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz; Winkler, Eberhard & Pajusalu, Karl 2018. Salis-Livisch II. Grammatik und Wörterverzeichnis. Mit einem Anhang zu den salis-livischen Sprichwörtern. Auf der Grundlage von J. A. Sjögrens Sprachmaterialien verfasst von Eberhard Winkler und Karl Pajusalu. Veröffentlichungen der Societas Uralo-Altaica Band 89. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz; Winkler, Eberhard 2019. Salis-Livisch III. Ergänzungen, frühe Quellen und Geschichte. Veröffentlichungen der Societas Uralo-Altaica Band 91. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz - Tomingas, Marili: Norvik, Miina & Tuisk, Tuuli. 2023. Līvõ kīel optõbrōntõz. Liivi keele õpik. Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus Berichte, Mitteilungen, Nachrichten Hasselblatt, Cornelius: Tette Hofstra 18. Februar 1943 – 22. Februar 2023

Language Contact in Times of Globalization

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401200432
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Language Contact in Times of Globalization written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language contact phenomena have been researched throughout the history of the discipline, but the intensity of the research has undoubtedly risen during the last decades due to growing globalization. This peer-reviewed volume presents twelve papers from the Second Conference on Language Contact in Times of Globalization (University of Groningen, June 2009) which deal with a wide range of topics, languages and contact situations. Five of them involve a Finno-Ugric language (Saami-Komi-Russian; Finnic-Baltic; Mordvin-Turkic; Estonian-German; Saami general), two a Slavic language (Slavic-Romance; Slavic general), two Germanic-Romance contact and three situations outside Europe (The Arabic World; Central Asia; South America). Methods range from field research and corpus analysis to historical linguistics, and both synchronic and diachronic approaches are used. The authors are Rogier Blokland and Michael Rießler, Martine Bruil, Louise-Amélie Cougnon, Anissa Daoudi, Santeri Junttila, Janneke Kalsbeek, Folke Müller and Susan Schlotthauer, Johanna Nichols, Pekka Sammallahti, Peter Schrijver, Remco van Pareren, and Willem Vermeer. Keywords / target groups: General linguistics, Contact linguistics, Finno-Ugric linguistics, Slavic linguistics.

Cyclical Change Continued

Author : Elly van Gelderen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 902726743X
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Cyclical Change Continued written by Elly van Gelderen and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents new data and additional questions regarding the linguistic cycle. The topics discussed are the pronoun, negative, negative existential, analytic-synthetic, distributive, determiner, degree, and future/modal cycles. The papers raise questions about the length of time that cycles take, the interactions between different cycles, the typical stages and their stability, and the areal factors influencing cycles. The languages and language families that are considered in depth are Central Pomo, Cherokee, Chinese, English, French, Gbe, German, Hmong-Mien, Maipurean, Mayan, Mohawk, Mon-Khmer, Niger-Congo, Nupod, Quechuan, Sino-Tibetan, Tai-Kadai , Tuscarora, Ute, and Yoruboid. One paper covers several of the world’s language families. Cyclical change connects linguists working in various frameworks because it is exciting to find a reason behind this fascinating phenomenon.

Grammaticalization meets Construction Grammar

Author : Evie Coussé
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027264163
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Grammaticalization meets Construction Grammar written by Evie Coussé and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grammaticalization research has increasingly highlighted the notion of constructions in the last decade. In the wake of this heightened interest, efforts have been made in grammaticalization research to more precisely articulate the largely pretheoretical notion of construction in the theoretical framework of construction grammar. As such, grammaticalization research increasingly interacts and converges with the emerging field of diachronic construction grammar. This volume brings together articles that are situated at the intersection of grammaticalization research and diachronic construction grammar. All articles share an interest in integrating insights from grammaticalization research and construction grammar in order to advance our understanding of empirical cases of grammaticalization. Constructions at various levels of abstractness are investigated, both in well-documented languages, such as Ancient Greek, Latin, Spanish, German, Norwegian and English, and in less-described languages, such as Manchu and Mongolian.