This article studies the relationship between prosody and desemanticization in grammaticalization processes by means of a well-described phenomenon, the grammaticalization of 'type' nouns (type, kind, ...

Grammaticalization is generally viewed as a diachronic process of: lexical > grammatical and grammatical > more grammatical. This paper deals with the grammaticalization of bipartite reciprocal ...

Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University (Applied Linguistics, Spanish) M.A., University of New Mexico (Hispanic Linguistics) B.A., University of New Mexico (Languages) Smith, Hiram L. (2022).