Are verbal person markers primarily shaped by cyclic grammaticalization? Recent work by Seržant gives a new answer
Almost as well-known as Jespersen’s Cycle is “Givón’s Cycle”, the change from independent personal pronoun to grammatical person marker (= person index) to zero, with subsequent renewal: Givon’s Cycle (so dubbed by Seržant 2021): independent personal pronoun > subject index … Continue reading