In:The Diachrony of Word Class Peripheries
Edited by Tanja Ackermann and Christian Zimmer
[Studies in Language Companion Series 238] 2025
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 7 November 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.238.toc
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Table of contents
Chapter 1.A diachronic perspective on word classes and their peripheries1
Christian Zimmer
Tanja Ackermann
Chapter 2.Diachronic evidence for Spanish object mass nouns as a peripheral category17
Désirée Kleineberg
Wiltrud Mihatsch
Chapter 3.Adjectival adverbs or adverbial adjectives? How to explain synchrony with diachrony60
Katharina Paul
Marco Coniglio
Chapter 4.Relational adjectives as a phantom in the history of German? A contrastive corpus study of old and early New High German81
Martina Werner
Nina C. Rastinger
Sophia M. Beiter
Chapter 5.German noun-participle combinations as peripheral adjectives101
Carlotta J. Hübener
Chapter 6.Peripheral members of a peripheral class: Cardinal numerals and dynamic word classes126
Ferdinand von Mengden
Chapter 7.The rise of the pseudo-verb category in Arabic157
Maris Camilleri
Chapter 8.A diachronic perspective on peripheral verbs in German184
Tanja Ackermann
Christian R. Forche
Christian Zimmer
Chapter 9.Iconic words as a peripheral lexical group: A diachronic approach206
Maria Flaksman
Index
