Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. List of contributors ix
5. Synchrony and diachrony 1
6. Part I. The role of analogy and constructions in the synchrony-diachrony interface
7. Gradualness in language change 27
8. Gradual change and continual variation 43
9. Can you literally be scared sick ? 79
10. The reputed sense of be meant to 105
11. Gradualness in analogical change as a complexification stage in a language simplification process 125
12. Part II. Synchronic variation and language change
13. Semantic maps, for synchronic and diachronic typology 153
14. Synchronic gradience and language change in Latin genitive constructions 177
15. Double agreement in the Alpine languages 201
16. On variation in gender agreement 237
17. Synchronic Variation and Grammatical Change 261
18. A case study on the relationship between grammatical change and synchronic variation 283
19. Grammaticalization in the present – The changes of modern Swedish typ 313
20. Part III. Gradualness in language change
21. Gradualness in change in English (augmented) absolutes 341
22. Grammatical encoding of referentiality in the history of Hungarian 367
23. Gradualness in contact-induced constructional replication 391
24. Binding Hierarchy and peculiarities of the verb potere in some Southern Calabrian varieties 419
25. Author index 441
26. Subject index 447