Abstract
At least since Georg von der Gabelentz’s (1901) famous passage (cf.Haspelmath 1999: 1051), grammaticalization processes have been con-ceived of as cyclic: a grammatical marker that expresses a certain functiongets reduced, fuses with a content item, and is replaced (‘‘renewed’’) bya new periphrastic construction. This can be illustrated by the history ofthe dative marker from Proto-Indo-European (PIE) to colloquialPortuguese, where we can observe or infer three cycles of this process.Each time, an allative or benefactive adposition becomes a dative marker.In pre-Proto-Indo-European, there must have been a postposition similarto *
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