[Lingtyp] New open access volume: Cyclic change in grammar and discourse

[Ezra la Roi]

Dear typologists,

On behalf of Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Richard Waltereit, I am sharing the publication of a new open access volume with you that I believe will be of interest to the readers of this list: https://academic.oup.com/book/60716. This open access volume addresses the concept of cyclic change in a range of different domains with data from across the world. For your convenience, I share the TOC below so that you have a quick overview of the different topics that are discussed in the contributions by typologists and historical linguists.
1:Cyclic change in grammar and discourse: An introduction, Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen;Richard Waltereit
PART I Cyclic Change in Grammar
2:Additive negation in Dutch, from synchrony to diachrony, cyclical and noncyclical, Johan van der Auwera;Daniel Van Olmen
3:The role of pragmatics in the cyclical renewal and reinforcement of demonstratives from Latin to Italian, Chiara Fedriani;Piera Molinelli
4:Conflicting mechanisms in cycles of similative demonstrative reinforcement, Urd Vindenes
5:Prototypicalization in cyclic change, Ittamar Erb;Mira Ariel
6:The Continuative Cycle, Ljuba Veselinova;Anastasia Panova
7:The counterfactual life cycle: Cyclicity, pragmatics, and modality, Ezra la Roi
8:Bidirectional cycles of indirectness in Mandarin, Yueh Hsin Kuo
9:Morphological coordination in Sinitic languages as a form of cyclic change, Haiping Long;Jian Wang
10:'Or' cycles, Mira Ariel;Caterina Mauri
PART II Cyclic Change in Discourse
11:A new look at grammaticalization versus pragmaticalization in the rise of pragmatic markers: A typology of linear and non-linear forms of evolution, Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen
12:A typology of cyclicity: Waves and spirals, constructions and features, Giulio Scivoletto
13:Clines and cycles of meaning change, Ruti Bardenstein
14:The rise and fall of Occitan be(n) and pla(n): A semantic-pragmatic cycle?, Sandra Paoli
15:The role of reanalysis in the renewal of contrast: A cyclical evolution from simultaneity to opposition in Brazilian Portuguese, Luísa Ferrari
16:Spanish approximators en plan and rollo between two centuries: Microdiachrony of a pragmatic cycle?, Adrià Pardo Llibrer
17:Weakening of pragmatic force and socio-cultural factors: The pragmaticalization cycle of Italian grammatical deference, Chiara Ghezzi
18:Pragmatic cycles in Spanish farewell routines, Ana Llopis Cardona

All the best,

Ezra

--------------------
Dr. Ezra la Roi

Greek, Romance and Indo-European linguistics

https://www.ezralaroi.com/

FWO junior postdoc Ghent University

Lecturer Linguistic Typology KU Leuven




-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/lingtyp/attachments/20250915/759e5786/attachment.htm>