Semantic, syntactic and constructional restrictions in the diachronic rise of modal particles in German: A corpus-based study on the formation of a grammaticalization channel

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction: Further reflections on grammaticalization 1
5. Swedish må and the (de)grammaticalization debate 15
6. 'Where grammar and lexis meet:' Composite predicates in English 33
7. On the grammaticalization and (inter)subjectivity of evidential (semi-)auxiliaries in Spanish 55
8. Semantic, syntactic and constructional restrictions in the diachronic rise of modal particles in German: A corpus-based study on the formation of a grammaticalization channel 77
9. Double indirect object marking in Spanish and Italian 111
10. The emergence of particle clusters in Dutch: Grammaticalization under adverse conditions 131
11. Antigrammaticalization, antimorphologization and the case of Tura 151
12. Can grammaticalization be parameterized? 171
13. Possessive adjectives as a source of intensifiers 183
14. Information structure and grammaticalization 207
15. From speech-situation evocation to hypotaxis: The case of Latin quamvis 'although' 231
16. Grammaticalization waves: The Russian subjunctive mood and person/number marking 253
17. Discourse frequency and the collapse of the adposition vs. affix distinction in Lakota 269
18. On the grammaticalization of the Spanish expression puede que 293
19. On the history and present behaviour of subordinating that with adverbial conjunctions in English 315
20. The regrammaticalization of linking elements in German 333
21. Language index 361
22. Name index 357
23. Subject index 363