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In:Approaches to Grammaticalization: Volume II. Types of grammatical markers
Edited by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Bernd Heine
[Typological Studies in Language 19:2] 1991
► pp. v–x

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Published online: 15 October 1991
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Table of contents

Forewordxi
Introduction1
I. Verbal structure15
Back to the future17
The emergence of perfective aspect in Indo-Aryan languages59
II. Argument structure91
Grammaticization of topic into subject93
From V/2 to subject clitics: evidence from Northern Italian135
The role of motivation in the emergence of grammatical categories: the grammaticization of subjects159
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Verbs to promotional suffixes in Sahaptian and klamath185
Grammaticalization of postpositions and word order in Senufo languages201
III. Subordination225
From postposition to subordinator in Newari227
The evolution of dependent clause morpho-syntax in Biblical Hebrew257
IV. Modality311
A quantitative perspective on the gramaticization of epistemic parentheticals in English313
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The grammaticization of the German modal particles331
V. Spectra of grammaticalization patterns381
Areal and universal dimensions of grammatization in Lahu383
Ways to go in Rama: a case study in polygrammaticalization455
Grammaticalization and related changes in contemporary German493
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