Acknowledgements

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Preface 1
6. Gradience, gradualness and grammaticalization 19
7. Grammaticalization, the clausal hierarchy and semantic bleaching 45
8. Grammatical interference 75
9. Category change in English with and without structural change 105
10. Features in reanalysis and grammaticalization 129
11. How synchronic gradience makes sense in the light of language change (and vice versa) 149
12. What can synchronic gradience tell us about reanalysis? 181
13. A paradigmatic approach to language and language change 203
14. Grammaticalization and the it-cleft construction 221
15. Grammaticalization in Chinese 245
16. Grammaticalization and models of language 279
17. Language index 301
18. Subject index 303