Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Section I. Diachronic approaches
5. Chapter 1. From comparative standard marker to comparative adverb 20
6. Chapter 2. From fear to reason 50
7. Chapter 3. - maɾa in Mara 74
8. Section II. Synchronic approaches
9. Chapter 4. Tracking Jespersen’s cycle in Veronese and Bresciano 104
10. Chapter 5. Could be, might be, maybe 124
11. Chapter 6. The final-appendage construction in Japanese and Korean 147
12. Chapter 7. New perspectives on phonological erosion as an aspect of grammaticalization 176
13. Section III. Interactive contexts
14. Chapter 8. On the development of discourse markers from elliptical structures 198
15. Chapter 9. On the grammaticalization of ideophones 237
16. Chapter 10. An emerging final particle 263
17. Index 283