Discourse origins of the present perfect

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Preface v
3. Table of contents vii
4. Introduction ix
5. Part I. Groundwork
6. Ritualization and the development of language 3
7. Phonogenesis 29
8. Part II. Case studies
9. The grammaticalization of French à 49
10. The development of the definite article in French 63
11. Grammaticalization as semantic change: a case study of preposition development 81
12. The grammaticalization of the perfect in Old English 103
13. Discourse origins of the present perfect 119
14. TE and BA in Old through Middle Japanese 135
15. Finiteness and focus in Sinhala 151
16. Discourse morphology: a missing link to cyclical grammatical change 171
17. Word order change as category change: the Mande case 191
18. Part III. Universals and explanation
19. The Grammaticization of Zero 235
20. Grammaticalization as an explanatory parameter 255
21. Language index 289
22. Name index 293
23. Subject index 299