Cyclic Change in Grammar and Discourse

This volume explores the idea that language change may proceed in a cyclical fashion. The chapters assume that cyclic change is pragmatically driven, and explore forms of this change in morphosyntax, the lexicon, and semantics and pragmatics - as well as the interaction between these levels - in a variety of languages.

Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen, Professor, Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester,Richard Waltereit, Professor, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

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).