Grammaticalization Scenarios from Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific

Grammaticalization Scenarios from Africa, the Americas, and the PacificThis volume intends to fill the gap in the grammaticalization studies setting as its goal the systematic description of grammaticalization processes in genealogically and structurally diverse languages. To address the problem of the limitations of the secondary sources for grammaticalization studies, the editors rely on sketches of grammaticalization phenomena from experts in individual languages guided by a typological questionnaire.

Can the ancestry of freemasonry really be traced back to the Knights Templar

we didn’t have enough troops

Technologies of Speculation reframes today’s major moral and political controversies around algorithms and artificial intelligence

trade policies

Kallet gives a close examination of the subjects of wealth and power in this account of naval war and its aftermath and locates Thucydides' writings on these themes within a broad intellectual context

such as Congreve's The Double Dealer

Uncommon Cause follows environmental justice activists in Kerala

Did the emergence of the nuclear family and enforcement of monogamy in the Carolingian era enhance or erode the power and status of women

And how did it presage a movement that would come to symbolize the hopes of a whole generation of Poles

die sich – kaum anders als heute die Wikipedianer – für die Verbreitung des allgemeinen Wissens einsetzten

and analyzing results

" the old saying goes