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Preface / Jorge Fernández Jaén and Herminia Provencio Garrigós -- Nouns and labelling: The advance of nominalization in Spanish / Javier Elvira -- Causative and inchoative constructions with poner and meter ('to put') in Spanish: A diachronic constructional approach/ Renata Enghels and Marie Comer -- Auditory verbs in the Spanish language: A historical and cognitive approach / Jorge Fernández Jaén -- From semantics to grammar: Lexical substitution in the evolution of verbal periphrases haber/tener + infinitive / Mar Garachana Camarero and Axel Hernández Díaz -- A note on the relative diachronic productivity of metaphor and metonymy / Dirk Geeraerts and Lisbeth De Laet -- A cognitive approach to the grammaticalization of the epistemic marker fijo / Ruth M. Lavale-Ortiz -- The future tense in Spanish: An enactive approach / Ángel López García -- Form and meaning in the development of verbal polysemy / Chantal Melis -- Something seems to have changed: Diachronic evidence for the semantic shift of parecer + infinitive / Dorien Nieuwenhuijsen -- In substance, they came from above: On the acquisition of discourse particles in Medieval Spanish / Lola Pons Rodríguez -- Gramaticalization of en vías de: A multidimensional linguistic change / Herminia Provencio Garrigós -- On the importance of a diachronic approach to phraseology / Elena Sánchez López -- Index.

"Diachronic linguistics has been experiencing a strong revival during the last few decades, since an increasing number of researchers have assumed that evolutionary and historical factors must be considered to properly understand how natural languages work. This book offers new data and insights on some of the research lines which are currently being developed within the framework of diachronic language research. The papers brought together in this volume are characterized both by their originality and by their methodological diversity; the reader will thus find herein theoretical as well as empirical works, undertaken from various perspectives of analysis (diachronic cognitive semantics, grammaticalization theory, discursive traditions, historical phraseology, etc.). The final outcome is an eclectic volume which offers valuable information for every reader, regardless of whether they are experienced linguists or junior researchers willing to know the latest epistemological advances in this discipline"-- Provided by publisher.

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