Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword xi
4. Introduction 1
5. I. Verbal structure
6. Back to the future 17
7. The emergence of perfective aspect in Indo-Aryan languages 59
8. II. Argument structure
9. Grammaticization of topic into subject 93
10. From V/2 to subject clitics 135
11. The role of motivation in the emergence of grammatical categories 159
12. Verbs to promotional suffixes in Sahaptian and klamath 185
13. Grammaticalization of postpositions and word order in Senufo languages 201
14. III. Subordination
15. From postposition to subordinator in Newari 227
16. The evolution of dependent clause morpho-syntax in Biblical Hebrew 257
17. IV. Modality
18. A quantitative perspective on the gramaticization of epistemic parentheticals in English 313
19. The grammaticization of the German modal particles 331
20. V. Spectra of grammaticalization patterns
21. Areal and universal dimensions of grammatization in Lahu 383
22. Ways to go in Rama 455
23. Grammaticalization and related changes in contemporary German 493
24. Index of languages 537
25. Index of names 541
26. Index of subjects 547