Bibliography

An evolving bibliography of studies relating to the role of pragmatics in cyclic language change.

If you know of studies that ought to be included in this bibliography, but aren’t currently, please contact us with the details. Remember to include 3-5 key words for each entry and, where possible, a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) or other link to an electronic version.

Please note that this bibliography is listed in alphabetical order using the first named author’s surname.

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  • Patard, Adeline 2019. To the Roots of Fake Tense and ‘Counterfactuality’. In R. Peltola & E. Roussel (eds.), Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on the Semantics of Grammatical Aspect. Leiden; Boston: Brill. 176–212.
  • Pons Bordería, Salvador & Ana Llopis Cardona. 2020. Some reflections on semantic-pragmatic cycles. In Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen, ed. 2020. The Role of Pragmatics in Cyclical Change. (Special Issue.) Journal of Historical Pragmatics 21(2): 315-346.
  • Reinöhl, Uta & Nikolaus Himmelmann. 2017. Renewal: A figure of speech or a process sui generis? Language 93(2): 381–413.
  • Roberts, Ian. 1993. A formal account of grammaticalization in the history of Romance futures. Folia Linguistica Historica 13: 219-258.
  • Roberts, Ian & Anna Roussou. 2003. Syntactic Change. A Minimalist Approach to Grammaticalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • la Roi, Ezra. 2022. Interlocked life-cycles of counterfactual mood forms from Archaic to Classical Greek: Between Aspect and Changing Temporal Reference. Indogermanische Forschungen 127.
  • la Roi, Ezra. Forthcoming. Down the paths to the past habitual: its historical connections with counterfactual pasts, future in the pasts, iteratives and lexical sources in Ancient Greek. Folia Linguistica Historica 57(44).
  • Rupp, Laura & Sali A. Tagliamonte. 2017. This here town: evidence for the development of the English determiner system from a vernacular demonstrative construction in York English. English Language & Linguistics 23(1): 81-103.
  • Schwenter, Scott A. 2006. Fine-tuning Jespersen’s Cycle. In Betty J. Birner & Gregory Ward, eds. Drawing the Boundaries of Meaning. Neo-Gricean Studies in Semantics and Pragmatics in Honor of Laurence R. Horn. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 327-344.
  • Scivoletto, Giulio. 2020. Semasiological cyclicity in the evolution of discourse markers: a case from Sicilian. In Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen, ed. The Role of Pragmatics in Cyclical Change. (Special Issue.) Journal of Historical Pragmatics 21(2): 236-262.
  • Seržant, Ilja A. 2021. Cyclic changes in verbal person-number indexes are unlikely. Folia linguistica historica 42(1): 49-86. 
  • Sheng, Yimin. 2015. The location morpheme-demonstrative cycle in Wu dialects: On the lexical renewal of the demonstratives from the typological perspective. International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 2(1): 121–148.
  • Simone, Raffaele. 2000. Cycles lexicaux. Studi Italiani di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata 16: 259-287.
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