Aim

Describe two grammaticalization paths:

  1. from copula to thematic structure articulator
  2. from second verb in a series to verb enclitic.

Structure

  1. Basic information on Cabecar
  2. analysis of data in the two 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