Synchrony and Diachrony

Abstract

1. Acknowledgements 2. List of contributors 3. Synchrony and diachrony: Introduction to a dynamic interface (by Giacalone Ramat, Anna) 4. Part I. The role of analogy and constructions in the synchrony-diachrony interface 5. Gradualness in language change: A constructional perspective (by Trousdale, Graeme) 6. Gradual change and continual variation: The history of a verb-initial construction in Welsh (by Currie, Oliver) 7. Can you literally be scared sick?: The role of analogy in the rise of a network of Resultative and Degree Modifier constructions (by Margerie, Helene) 8. The reputed sense of be meant to: A case of gradual change by analogy (by Disney, Steve) 9. Gradualness in analogical change as a complexification stage in a language simplification process: A case study from Modern Greek dialects (by Melissaropoulou, Dimitra) 10. Part II. Synchronic variation and language change 11. Semantic maps, for synchronic and diachronic typology (by Auwera, Johan van der) 12. Synchronic gradience and language change in Latin genitive constructions (by Magni, Elisabetta) 13. Double agreement in the Alpine languages: An intermediate stage in the development of inflectional morphemes (by Wratil, Melani) 14. On variation in gender agreement: The neutralization of pronominal gender in Dutch (by De Vos, Lien) 15. Synchronic Variation and Grammatical Change: The case of Dutch double gender nouns (by Semplicini, Chiara) 16. A case study on the relationship between grammatical change and synchronic variation: The emergence of tipo[-N] in Italian (by Voghera, Miriam) 17. Grammaticalization in the present - The changes of modern Swedish typ (by Rosenkvist, Henrik) 18. Part III. Gradualness in language change 19. Gradualness in change in English (augmented) absolutes (by Pol, Nikki van de) 20. Grammatical encoding of referentiality in the history of Hungarian (by Egedi, Barbara) 21. Gradualness in contact-induced constructional replication: The Abstract Possession construction in the Circum-Mediterranean area (by Fedriani, Chiara) 22. Binding Hierarchy and peculiarities of the verb potere in some Southern Calabrian varieties (by De Angelis, Alessandro) 23. Author index 24. Subject index