List of figures

List of tables

Preface and acknowledgments

List of abbreviations

1 Some Preliminaries

1.1 Introduction

1.2 What is a grammaticalized form?

1.3 Some further examples of grammaticalization

1.4 Grammaticalization and language structure

1.5 Grammaticalization and the directionality of language change

1.6 Conclusion

2 The history of grammatiocalization

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Earlier research on grammaticalization

2.3 Research on grammatiocalization from the 1960s to the 1990s

2.4 Recent Trends in research on grammaticalization

3 Meachanisms:reanalysis and analogy

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Some bakground assumptions about change

3.3 Reanalysis

3.4 The independence of reanalysis and grammaticalization

3.5 Analogy/rule generalization

3.6 The differetial effects of reanalysis and analogy

3.7 Conclusion

4 Pranmatic factors

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Inferecing and meaning change

4.3 The role of pragmatic inferecing in grammaticalization

4.4 Metaphor and metionymy as problem solving

4.5 pragmatic enrichment versus"bleaching"

4.6 Conclusion

5 The hypothesis of undirectionality

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6 Clause-internal morphological changes

7 Grammaticalization across clauses

8 Grammaticalization in situations of extreme languange contact

9 Summary and suggestions of further work

Notes

References

Index of names

Index of languages

General index