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The French indefinite pronoun  on  and the Spanish existential  haber  show processes of evolution in the verb domain which go beyond the traditional concept of grammaticalization:  On  develops into a 1st person plural pronoun in spoken French, and for  haber  we can find uses where the verb agreement reveals that the participant has been reinterpreted as a subject instead of an object, e. g.  habían soldados  ‘there were soldiers’. I will argue that these processes of change can be analyzed in a unified framework built on the notion of ambiguity. In order to develop such a framework, I will start by discussing previous approaches to ambiguity in logics and semantics. In a next step, I will propose a wider definition of this concept which integrates cases of ambiguity in the language system as well as cases of ambiguity in discourse, and I will outline semantico-cognitive and pragmatic parameters which permit us to define basic situations of ambiguity in speaker-hearer interaction. These situations of ambiguity characterize basic scenarios of innovation, and analyses focusing on the development of new ambiguities in discourse may thus offer valuable perspectives on language change.

Ambiguitätsphänomene im Umfeld des Verbs in der Diachronie der romanischen Sprachen