This chapter discusses corpus linguistic work that investigates change in grammatical phenomena, such as word order patterns, complementation, clause linkage, pronoun systems, or markers of tense, aspect, and modality. The focus is on English grammar, but the main points are applicable to grammatical change in other languages as well. The chapter has two parts. The first part is a selective overview of diachronic studies with different subject matters and theoretical backgrounds in the area of corpus-based work on grammatical change. The overview addresses four core questions:• What grammatical phenomena have been studied?• What corpus-based measures and methods have been used in the process?• Which types of grammatical change are highly amenable to corpus analysis, and which ones less so?• What empirical and theoretical results have emerged?The second part of the chapter offers a detailed report on a diachronic corpus study addressing the English derivational suffix -ment. The study illustrates how corpus-based analysis can reveal the life cycle of a word-formation process. Discussion of the new formations that are typical for different historical stages yields a new perspective on productivity not as a one-dimensional quantitative measure but as a grammatical characteristic shaped over time by structure, meaning, and frequency alike.

The torpedoing of the troop transport SS Tuscania on February 5, 1918, was the U.S. Army’s first mass-casualty event of World War I. Along with dozens of British crew members, 215 American soldiers perished. The disaster sent shockwaves across the United States and led to a scandal in the War Department, as angry families demanded more accurate lists of the living and the dead. Several important reforms came in the wake of the tragedy, including the addition of serial numbers to U.S. Army identification discs (or “dog tags”) and new guidelines for the proper care of personnel rosters. While the military struggled to meet the public’s expectations, propagandists responded to the sinking energetically. “Remember the Tuscania!” instantly became a ubiquitous war cry on the American home front. At the same time, visual messaging linked the Tuscania’s fatalities to a new symbology of wartime death, one built around the motivational figure of the Spartan Mother and the icon of the Gold Star. Largely forgotten today, the sinking of the Tuscania offers a revealing case study in the evolving relationship between the U.S. government and the families from which citizen-soldiers are drawn.

Managing financially material climate risk requires reliable, decision-useful data, yet climate-related information remains fragmented and complex. Investor Climate Alliances (ICAs) have emerged as institutional responses, providing the infrastructure to produce, share, and interpret climate risk data across heterogeneous communities. Using the governing knowledge commons framework, this chapter examines ICAs as collective governance systems – institutions that coordinate knowledge production through formal rules, informal norms, and shared practices. Investor Climate Alliances demonstrate that complex knowledge resources can be generated collaboratively. In doing so, they illuminate the friction between collaborative knowledge governance and corporate law’s traditional paradigms which constrain investor collaboration.

The foundation of the chapter is the distinction between regulation and control, and the link between them. The distinction is exemplified by the regulation of body temperature by means of control actions;for example, shivering, sweating, and changing the relation with the environment. The latter reflects motivation. The discussion then goes on to document a number of phenomena that also illustrate regulation and control: non-suicidal self-injury, hair pulling, skin picking, addictions of various sorts, and borderline personality disorder.

This chapter proposes to recast the supply chain as a commons via an extended description of the shared social, intellectual, and regulatory resources currently producing an experiment in a circular economy for organic waste in Sydney, Australia. Organic waste, once composted, finds its way into high-value-added crops like heirloom garlic, which are then sold back to consumers in Sydney. By foregrounding the practices of social learning and information sharing that is making this “circularity” possible, the chapter illustrates how creating a material commons often depends upon creating a knowledge commons to make it cohere, as well as upon creating commoner-subjects who will do the work of caring for both.