This volume explores the way in which grammaticalization processes - whereby lexical words eventually become markers of grammatical categories - converge and di

This volume explores the way in which grammaticalization processes converge and differ across languages and language areas. Chapters systemically explore these

The recent resurgence of interest in the evolution of grammatical form and meaning from lexical material has reinvigorated historical analysis and theory. Some

The study of grammaticalization raises a number of fundamental theoretical issues pertaining to the relation of langue and parole, creativity and automatic codi

This book presents the state of the art in research on grammaticalization, the process by which lexical items acquire grammatical function, grammatical items ge