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Daniel Corbett is playing piano in a Toronto restaurant during Sunday brunch and dreaming of his daughter, who just turned fourteen but whom he hasn't seen for a decade. That's because Corbett isn't just a piano player. He's also a parolee, a former heart surgeon who, ten years before, was convicted of slitting his wife's throat. As Corbett works the keyboard, an attractive woman, Nora, strikes up a conversation and then requests "Happy Birthday" for her daughter, Ellie. He looks over at Nora's table. Ellie is the picture of the daughter in his head. Same birthdate, same age, going by her...

Daniel Corbett is playing piano in a Toronto restaurant during Sunday brunch and dreaming of his daughter, who just turned fourteen but whom he hasn't seen for a decade. That's because Corbett isn't just a piano player. He's also a parolee, a former heart surgeon who, ten years before, was convicted of slitting his wife's throat. As Corbett works the keyboard, an attractive woman, Nora, strikes up a conversation and then requests "Happy Birthday" for her daughter, Ellie. He looks over at Nora's table. Ellie is the picture of the daughter in his head. Same birthdate, same age, going by her...

The product of a group of scholars who have been working on new directions in Historical Linguistics, this book is focused on questions of grammatical change, and the central issue of grammaticalization in Indo-European languages. Several studies examine particular problems in specific languages, but often with implications for the IE phylum as a whole. Given the historical scope of the data (over a period of four millennia) long range grammatical changes such as the development of gender differences, strategies of definiteness, the prepositional phrase, or of the syntax of the verbal...