The relationship between inflectional case marking and the emergence of definite and indefinite articles has long been hypothesized but seldom examined quantitatively. This study presents a large-scale statistical analysis of the relationship across …
Grammaticalization is characterized by robust directional asymmetries (e.g., Kuteva et al. 2019). For instance, body-part nominals develop into spatial adpositions, minimizers develop into negation markers, and subject pronouns become agreement …