This is the second of two volumes deriving from papers presented at the Nineteenth Annual UWM linguistics Symposium held in Milwaukee in 1990. It focuses on the

This volume contains a selection of papers on grammaticalization from a broad perspective. Some of the papers focus on basic concepts in grammaticalization rese

This volume explores the way in which grammaticalization processes converge and differ across languages and language areas. Chapters systemically explore these

The study of grammaticalization raises a number of fundamental theoretical issues pertaining to the relation of langue and parole, creativity and automatic codi

Grammaticalization is an important concept in general and typological linguistics and a prominent type of explanation in historical linguistics. For historical