Theoretical and Empirical Issues in Grammaticalization

Abstract

1. Preface 2. Introduction: Further reflections on grammaticalization (by Seoane, Elena) 3. Swedish ma and the (de)grammaticalization debate (by Andersson, Peter) 4. 'Where grammar and lexis meet:' Composite predicates in English (by Brinton, Laurel J.) 5. On the grammaticalization and (inter)subjectivity of evidential (semi-)auxiliaries in Spanish (by Cornillie, Bert) 6. 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 (by Diewald, Gabriele) 7. Double indirect object marking in Spanish and Italian (by Dufter, Andreas) 8. The emergence of particle clusters in Dutch: Grammaticalization under adverse conditions (by Hoeksema, Jack) 9. Antigrammaticalization, antimorphologization and the case of Tura (by Idiatov, Dmitry) 10. Can grammaticalization be parameterized? (by Klausenburger, Jurgen) 11. Possessive adjectives as a source of intensifiers (by Konig, Ekkehard) 12. Information structure and grammaticalization (by Lehmann, Christian) 13. From speech-situation evocation to hypotaxis: The case of Latin quamvis 'although' (by Leuschner, Torsten) 14. Grammaticalization waves: The Russian subjunctive mood and person/number marking (by Norgard-Sorensen, Jens) 15. Discourse frequency and the collapse of the adposition vs. affix distinction in Lakota (by Pustet, Regina) 16. On the grammaticalization of the Spanish expression puede que (by Espineira, Maria Jose Rodriguez) 17. On the history and present behaviour of subordinating that with adverbial conjunctions in English (by Rohdenburg, Gunter) 18. The regrammaticalization of linking elements in German (by Wegener, Heide) 19. Language index 20. Name index 21. Subject index