Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Introduction ix
5. New reflections on grammaticalization and lexicalization 1
6. More thoughts on degrammaticalization 19
7. Grammaticalization within a theory of morphocentricity 31
8. The final stages of grammaticalization: Affixhood and beyond 45
9. Yesterday’s affixes as today’s clitics 67
10. On the role of context in grammaticalization 83
11. A model for relevant types of contexts in grammaticalization 103
12. Semantic constraints in the grammaticalization of locative constructions 121
13. Really worthwhile or not really significant ? 143
14. Crosslinguistic and diachronic remarks on the grammaticalization of aspect in Romance languages 163
15. The grammaticalization of deictic directionals into modulators of temporal distance 181
16. Grammaticalization and category weakness 201
17. Grammaticalization of ‘give’ 217
18. An invisible hand at the root of causation 237
19. Making sense of nominal classification systems 259
20. Phono-syntactic conspiracy and beyond 277
21. Retention of abstract meaning 293
22. The grammaticalization of honorific particles in Korean 309
23. From logophoric pronoun to discourse particle 327
24. On the development of final though 345
25. Grammaticalization, subjectification and the origin of phatic markers 363
26. The evolution of the German modal particle denn 379
27. Putting grammaticalization in its place 395
28. Grammaticalization as an analogue of hypothetico-deductive thinking 413
29. Appendix 423
30. General Index 425