List of contributors

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of contributors vii
4. Part I Characteristics of Cycles
5. Cyclical change continued 3
6. What cycles when and why 19
7. Part II Macro-cycles
8. Is radical analyticity normal 49
9. An analytic-synthetic spiral in the history of English 93
10. The interaction between the French subject and object cycles 113
11. Part III The Negative Micro-Cycles
12. The negative existential cycle viewed through the lens of comparative data 139
13. Jespersen cycles in the Mayan, Quechuan and Maipurean languages* 189
14. Mayan negation cycles 219
15. Part IV Pronominal, Quantifier, and Modal Micro-cycles
16. The diachrony of pronominal agreement 251
17. The degree cycle 287
18. Modality and gradation 319
19. All you need is another ‘Need’ 351
20. The grammaticalization of 要 Yao and the future cycle from Archaic Chinese to Modern Mandarin* 395
21. Author Index 419
22. Subject and Language Index 425