Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Address list vii
4. Preface ix
5. Introduction: New perspectives on grammaticalization 1
6. Grammaticalization and the areal factor: The perspective of East and mainland Southeast Asian languages 15
7. On the grammaticalization of 'come' and 'go' into markers of textual connectivity 37
8. Grammaticalization, typology and semantics: Expanding the agenda 61
9. Mismatch: Grammar distortion and grammaticalization 103
10. Areal convergence in grammaticalization processes 129
11. The grammaticalization of nominalizers in Japanese and Korean: A contrastive study 169
12. On the frills of grammaticalization 189
13. Nominalizations in Bodic languages 219
14. On the rise and fall of Korean nominalizers 239
15. The grammaticalization of clausal nominalizers in Burmese 265
16. The grammaticalization cline of cardinal numerals and numeral systems 289
17. The development of nominalizers in East Asian and Tibeto-Burman languages 309
18. Index of names 343
19. Index of languages 348
20. Index of subjects 350