New Reflections on Grammaticalization

1. Foreword; 2. Introduction (by Diewald, Gabriele); 3. New reflections on grammaticalization and lexicalization (by Lehmann, Christian); 4. More thoughts on degrammaticalization (by Auwera, Johan van der); 5. Grammaticalization within a theory of morphocentricity (by Klausenburger, Jurgen); 6. The final stages of grammaticalization: Affixhood and beyond (by Norde, Muriel); 7. Yesterday's affixes as today's clitics: A case-study in degrammaticalization (by Doyle, Aidan); 8. On the role of context in grammaticalization (by Heine, Bernd); 9. A model for relevant types of contexts in grammaticalization (by Diewald, Gabriele); 10. Semantic constraints in the grammaticalization of locative constructions (by Svorou, Soteria); 11. Really worthwhile or not really significant ?: A corpus-based approach to the delexicalization and grammaticalization of intensifiers in Modern English (by Lorenz, Gunter); 12. Crosslinguistic and diachronic remarks on the grammaticalization of aspect in Romance languages: Location and motion verbs (by Hassler, Gerda); 13. The grammaticalization of deictic directionals into modulators of temporal distance (by Bourdin, Philippe); 14. Grammaticalization and category weakness (by Company Company, Concepcion); 15. Grammaticalization of 'give': African and Asian perspectives (by Lord, Carol); 16. An invisible hand at the root of causation: The role of lexicalization in the grammaticalization of causatives (by Mithun, Marianne); 17. Making sense of nominal classification systems: Noun classifiers and the grammaticalization variable (by Grinevald, Colette); 18. Phono-syntactic conspiracy and beyond: Grammaticalization in spoken Beijing Mandarin (by Tao, Liang); 19. Retention of abstract meaning: The essive case and grammaticalization of polyphony in Finnish (by Salminen, Taru); 20. The grammaticalization of honorific particles in Korean (by Sohn, Sung-Ock S.); 21. From logophoric pronoun to discourse particle: A case study of Finnish and Saami (by Laitinen, Lea); 22. On the development of final though: A case of grammaticalization? (by Barth-Weingarten, Dagmar); 23. Grammaticalization, subjectification and the origin of phatic markers (by Pinto De Lima, Jose); 24. The evolution of the German modal particle denn (by Wegener, Heide); 25. Putting grammaticalization in its place (by Chafe, Wallace); 26. Grammaticalization as an analogue of hypothetico-deductive thinking (by Itkonen, Esa); 27. Appendix; 28. General Index