What Makes Grammaticalization?: A Look from Its Fringes and Its Components (Hardcover)

I. General issues 1. W. Bisang, B. Wiemer: Introduction: What makes grammaticalization - a look from its components and its fringes 2. N. Himmelmann: Lexicalization and grammaticization: opposite or orthogonal II. On building grammar from below and from above: between phonology and pragmatics 3. L. Gaeta: Exploring grammaticalization from below 4. S. Gunthner & K. Mutz: Grammaticalization vs. pragmaticalization? The development of pragmatic markers in German and Italian 5. W. Bisang: Grammaticalization without coevolution of form and meaning as an areal phenomenon in East and mainland Southeast Asia - the case of tense-aspect-mood (TAM) 6. D. Weiss: The rise of an indefinite article: the case ofMacedonian eden III. Grammatical derivation 7. V. Lehmann: Grammaticalization via extending derivation 8. K. Bottger: Grammaticalization the derivational way: the Russian aspectual prefixes po-, za-, ot- IV. The role of lexical semantics and of constructions 9. E. Konig & L. Vezzosi: The role of predicate meaning in the development of reflexivity 10. B. Hansen: Modals and boundaries of grammaticalization. The case of Russian, Polish and Serbian/Croatian 11. B. Wiemer: The evolution of passives as grammatical constructions in Northern Slavic and Baltic languages