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Approaches to Grammaticalization: Volume I. Theoretical and methodological issues
Edited by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Bernd Heine
[Typological Studies in Language 19:1] 1991
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Table of contents

Forewordxi
Introduction1
I. General Method15
On some principles of grammaticization17
On the gradualness of grammaticalization37
Serial verbs and the mental reality of ‘event’: Grammatical vs. cognitive packaging81
Grammaticalization as retextualization129
II. Directionality147
From cognition to grammar: Evidence from African languages149
The semantics-pragmatics of grammaticalization revisited189
The de dicto domain in language219
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The grammaticallization of rhetorical questions in Tamil253
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Some grammaticalization changes in Estonian and their implications285
The last stages of grammatical elements; contractive and expansive desemanticization301
Substrates, calquing and grammaticalization in Melanesian pidgin315


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