Aim

Describe two grammaticalization paths:

  1. from copula to thematic structure articulator
  2. from demonstrative pronoun to instant resumptive
  3. from second verb in a series to verb enclitic.

Structure

  1. Basic information on Cabecar
  2. analysis of data in the three paths
  3. survey of grammaticalization in Cabecar.

Extract from:

Trends in Linguistics
Documentation
The Cabecar language
Guillermo González Campos and Christian Lehmann
DE GRUYTER
MOUTON
2026