Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction 1
5. On directionality in language change with particular reference to grammaticalization 17
6. Rescuing traditional (historical) linguistics from grammaticalization theory 45
7. The English s -genitive 73
8. An investigation into the marginal modals dare and need in British present-day English 97
9. Redefining unidirectionality 115
10. From pronominalizer to pragmatic marker 137
11. Conditionals and subjectification 169
12. Unidirectionality in the grammaticalization of modality in Greek 193
13. How cognitive is grammaticalization? The history of the Catalan perfet perifràstic 211
14. Perfect and resultative constructions in spoken and non-standard English 229
15. Grammaticalization and standardization 247
16. External factors behind cross-linguistic similarities 263
17. What constitutes a case of grammaticalization? Evidence from the development of copulas from demonstratives in Passamaquoddy 281
18. Multi-categorial items as underspecified lexical entries 299
19. The acquisition of polysemous forms 325
20. Phonetic absence as syntactic prominence 345
21. Grammaticalization of word order 363