While there are languages that code a particular grammatical role (e.g. subject or direct object) in one and the same way across the board, many more languages

While ample studies exist on ditransitives in various languages, notably from a typological perspective, more work needs to be done on identifying the main proc

The focus of this volume is on the relation between synchrony and diachrony. It is examined in the light of the most recent theories of language change and ling

The case-studies assembled in these two volumes span a lifetime of research into the diachrony of grammar. That is, into the rise and fall of syntactic construc

Diachrony in Biblical Hebrew is an indispensable publication for biblical scholars, whose interpretations of scriptures must engage the dates when texts were fi