Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword xi
4. Introduction 1
5. I. General Method
6. On some principles of grammaticization 17
7. On the gradualness of grammaticalization 37
8. Serial verbs and the mental reality of ‘event’ 81
9. Grammaticalization as retextualization 129
10. II. Directionality
11. From cognition to grammar 149
12. The semantics-pragmatics of grammaticalization revisited 189
13. The de dicto domain in language 219
14. The grammaticallization of rhetorical questions in Tamil 253
15. Some grammaticalization changes in Estonian and their implications 285
16. The last stages of grammatical elements; contractive and expansive desemanticization 301
17. Substrates, calquing and grammaticalization in Melanesian pidgin 315