Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part 1. General issues
6. Acquisition Based and Usage Based Explanations of Grammaticalisation. An Integrative Approach 13
7. Grammaticalization and Explanation 41
8. The perfectivization of the English perfect 53
9. Explaining language structure 67
10. Toward a constructional framework for research on language change 87
11. Part 2. Case studies
12. Grammaticalization of Polish mental predicate prefixes 109
13. More Thoughts on the Grammaticalization of Personal Pronouns 129
14. The grammaticalization of nomə in the Eastern Abruzzese dialect Ortese 157
15. The different developments of progressive aspect markers be in the middle/midst of and be in the process of V- ing 181
16. Sequentiality in dialogue as a trigger for grammaticalization 203
17. The final particle but in British English 235
18. “Final hanging but” in American English 257
19. Author index 287
20. Subject index 289