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Different Slants on Grammaticalization
Edited by Sylvie Hancil and Vittorio Tantucci
[Studies in Language Companion Series 232] 2023
► pp. v–vi

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.-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