Contributors
Acknowledgements
Preface / Graeme Trousdale and Elizabeth Closs Traugott
Gradience, gradualness and grammaticalization: How do they intersect? / Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Graeme Trousdale
Grammaticalization, the clausal hierarchy and semantic bleaching / Ian Roberts
Grammatical interference: Subject marker for and the phrasal verb particles out and forth / Hendrik De Smet
Category change in English with and without structural change / David Denison
Features in reanalysis and grammaticalization / Elly van Gelderen
How synchronic gradience makes sense in the light of language change (and vice versa) / Anette Rosenbach
What can synchronic gradience tell us about reanalysis? Verb-first conditionals in written German and Swedish / Martin Hilpert
A paradigmatic approach to language and language change / Lene Schøsler
Grammaticalization and the it-cleft construction / Amanda L. Patten
Grammaticalization in Chinese: A construction-based account / Walter Bisang
Grammaticalization and models of language / Nigel Vincent and Kersti Börjars
Language index
Subject index.
Gradience, gradualness and grammaticalization. ISBN 9789027288448. Published by John Benjamins Pub. Company in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.