Cyclic Change in Grammar and Discourse

Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen has been Professor of Linguistics and Pragmatics at the University of Manchester since 2007. She received her PhD and her Higher Doctorate from the University of Copenhagen in 1996 and 2008 respectively. She is a member of the Academia Europaea and a fellow of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences. Her book The Structure of Modern French: A Student Grammar was published by OUP in 2016.Richard Waltereit has been Professor of Romance Linguistics (French) at the Humboldt-University Berlin since 2017, having previously held positions at the University of Tübingen and Newcastle University. He was awarded his PhD in 1997 from the Freie Universität Berlin and his Habilitation in 2002 from Tübingen. His many publications include Reflexive Marking in the History of French (Benjamins, 2012).

• 1: Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen;Richard Waltereit: Cyclic change in grammar and discourse: An introductionPART I Cyclic Change in Grammar2: Johan van der Auwera;Daniel Van Olmen: Additive negation in Dutch, from synchrony to diachrony, cyclical and noncyclical3: Chiara Fedriani;Piera Molinelli: The role of pragmatics in the cyclical renewal and reinforcement of demonstratives from Latin to Italian4: Urd Vindenes: Conflicting mechanisms in cycles of similative demonstrative reinforcement5: Ittamar Erb;Mira Ariel: Prototypicalization in cyclic change6: Ljuba Veselinova;Anastasia Panova: The Continuative Cycle7: Ezra la Roi: The counterfactual life cycle: Cyclicity, pragmatics, and modality8: Yueh Hsin Kuo: Bidirectional cycles of indirectness in Mandarin9: Haiping Long;Jian Wang: Morphological coordination in Sinitic languages as a form of cyclic change10: Mira Ariel;Caterina Mauri: 'Or' cyclesPART II Cyclic Change in Discourse11: Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen: A new look at grammaticalization versus pragmaticalization in the rise of pragmatic markers: A typology of linear and non-linear forms of evolution12: Giulio Scivoletto: A typology of cyclicity: Waves and spirals, constructions and features13: Ruti Bardenstein: Clines and cycles of meaning change14: Sandra Paoli: The rise and fall of Occitan be(n) and pla(n): A semantic-pragmatic cycle?15: Luísa Ferrari: The role of reanalysis in the renewal of contrast: A cyclical evolution from simultaneity to opposition in Brazilian Portuguese16: Adrià Pardo Llibrer: Spanish approximators en plan and rollo between two centuries: Microdiachrony of a pragmatic cycle?17: Chiara Ghezzi: Weakening of pragmatic force and socio-cultural factors: The pragmaticalization cycle of Italian grammatical deference18: Ana Llopis Cardona: Pragmatic cycles in Spanish farewell routines