Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part 1. General issues
5. Are there two different ways of approaching grammaticalization? 23
6. Functional similarity despite geographical distance 55
7. Analogy 75
8. Central Southern Guangxi as a grammaticalization area 105
9. Grammaticalizing connectives in English and discourse information structure 135
10. Part 2. Case studies
11. The noun phrase
12. The grammaticalization of interrogative pronouns into relative pronouns in South-Caucasian languages 163
13. The verbal phrase
14. From time to surprise 185
15. C-gravitation and the grammaticalization degree of “present progressives” in English, French, and Dutch 207
16. The avertive and proximative grams in Maltese using the auxiliary għodd 231
17. Discourse markers
18. Pragmatic uses of nu in Old Saxon and Old English 259
19. (Inter)subjectification and paradigmaticization 291
20. The development of three classifiers into degree modifier constructions in Chinese 315
21. From the inside to the outside of the sentence 333
22. The development of the Chinese scalar additive coordinators derived from prohibitives 361
23. Cross-varietal diversity in constructional entrenchment 381
24. Index 431