The relationship between inflectional case marking and the emergence of definite and indefinite articles has been widely invoked but rarely tested quantitatively. This study provides a large-scale statistical evaluation across 94 Indo-European …
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 …