Perspectives on grammaticalization (J. Benjamins, 1994)
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Introduction / William Pagliuca -- Ritualization and the Development of Language / John Haiman -- Phonogenesis / Paul J. Hopper -- The Grammaticalization of French a / Patricia Kilroe -- The Development of the Definite Article in French / Richard Epstein -- Grammaticization as Semantic Change: A Case Study of Preposition Development / Jo Rubba -- The Grammaticalization of the Perfect in Old English: An Account Based on Pragmatics and Metaphor / Kathleen Carey -- Talking Perfectly: Discourse Origins of the Present Perfect / Dan I. Slobin -- Diachrony of Clause Linkage: TE and BA in Old through Middle Japanese / Toshio Ohori -- The Co-Development of Finiteness and Focus in Sinhala / John C. Paolillo -- Discourse Morphology: A Missing Link to Cyclical Grammatical Change / Danielle Cyr -- Word Order Change as Category Change: The Mande Case / Ulrike Claudi -- The Grammaticization of Zero: Asymmetries in Tense and Aspect Systems / Joan L. Bybee