Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.