About the Author
Christian Lehmann is Professor emeritus of general and comparative linguistics of the University of Erfurt, Germany. He has done descriptive, historical and typological work on various languages including Latin, German, Yucatec Maya and Cabecar, always combining structural and functional approaches. His research interests and publications relate to linguistic theory and methodology of language description, grammar and grammaticography and grammaticalization. His book publications include De3r Relativsatz (“The relative clause”, 1984), Thoughts on Grammaticalization (3nd ed. 2015), Possession in Yucatec Maya (1998), Morphology. An International Handbook on Inflection and Word Formation (with co-editors, 2 vols., 2000/2004). Professor Lehmann is currently working on Cabecar grammar and on reference. Most of his work can be seen and downloaded from https://www.christianlehmann.eu.