Table of contents
Introduction
Section I.Diachronic approaches
Chapter 1.
From comparative standard marker to comparative adverb
On the contact-induced (de)grammaticalization of
yori in modern through present-day
Japanese
Chapter 2.
From fear to reason
Grammaticalization as dependency vs expansion of the Mandarin apprehensive 怕 pà
Chapter 3.
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maɾa in Mara
On the ongoing grammaticalization(s) of a Bantu ‘finish’
verb
Section II.Synchronic approaches
Chapter 4.
Tracking Jespersen’s cycle in Veronese and Bresciano
Diatopic variation in sentential negation
Chapter 5.
Could be, might be, maybe
Mechanisms of grammaticalization in synchronic use and
perception
Chapter 6.
The final-appendage construction in Japanese and Korean
To what extent is post-predicative position exploited in the two East
Asian languages?
Chapter 7.
New perspectives on phonological erosion as an aspect of
grammaticalization
Section III.Interactive contexts
Chapter 8.
On the development of discourse markers from elliptical
structures
Chapter 9.
On the grammaticalization of ideophones
Chapter 10.
An emerging final particle
The case of
quoi ‘what’ in
French
Index