Author: Bernd Heine

"This book reconstructs what the earliest grammars might have been and shows how they could have led to the languages of modern humankind. "Like other biological phenomena, language cannot …

The languages and dialects of Europe, this book shows, are becoming increasingly alike. Furthermore this unifying process goes at least as far back as the Roman empire, is accelerating, and affects e …

This book presents the state of the art in research on grammaticalization, the process by which lexical items acquire grammatical function, grammatical items get additional functions, and grammars ar …

This handbook compares the main analytic frameworks and methods of contemporary linguistics. It offers a unique overview of linguistic theory, revealing the common concerns of competing approaches. B …

This handbook compares the main analytic frameworks and methods of contemporary linguistics. It offers a unique overview of linguistic theory, revealing the common concerns of competing approaches. B …

The main function of language is to convey meaning. Therefore, argues Bernd Heine in these pages, the question of why language is structured the way it is must first of all be answered with reference …

Offering a new perspective on auxiliaries in particular and language structure in general, this study argues that language cannot be explained satisfactorily with reference to linguistic variables al …

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This textbook introduces and explains the fundamental issues, major research questions, and current approaches in the study of grammaticalization – the development of new grammatical forms from lexic …

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This volume explores the way in which grammaticalization processes – whereby lexical words eventually become markers of grammatical categories – converge and differ across various types of language. …

This book explores a domain of discourse processing referred to as ‘interactive grammar’, based on an analysis of grammatical descriptions of over 100 languages spoken across the world. While much pr …

The study of grammaticalization raises a number of fundamental theoretical issues pertaining to the relation of langue and parole, creativity and automatic coding, synchrony and diachrony, categorial …