Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Nouns and labelling 1
5. Causative and inchoative constructions with poner and meter (‘to put’) in Spanish 21
6. Auditory verbs in the Spanish language 47
7. From semantics to grammar 77
8. A note on the relative diachronic productivity of metaphor and metonymy 109
9. A cognitive approach to the grammaticalization of the epistemic marker fijo 117
10. The future tense in Spanish 159
11. Form and meaning in the development of verbal polysemy 173
12. Something seems to have changed 195
13. In substance , they came from above 221
14. Grammaticalization of en vías de 237
15. On the importance of a diachronic approach to phraseology 299
16. Index 331