The degree-evaluative construction: Grammaticalization in constructionalization

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. The development of the Chinese aspectual sentence-final marker yĕ 21
5. The emergence of a definite article in Beijing Mandarin: The evolution of the proximal demonstrative zhè 55
6. The grammaticalization of the directional verb ‘lái’: A construction grammar approach 87
7. The degree-evaluative construction: Grammaticalization in constructionalization 115
8. The semantic historical development of modal verbs of volition in Chinese 149
9. Semantic change in the grammaticalization of classifiers in Mandarin Chinese 169
10. The repeater in Chinese and other languages 215
11. Lexicalization in the history of the Chinese language 235
12. Argument structure change, reanalysis and lexicalization: Grammaticalization of transitive verbs into ditransitive verbs in Chinese, Japanese and English 275
13. Subject index 303