The Oxford Handbook of Grammaticalization

This book presents the state of the art in research on grammaticalization, the process by which lexical items acquire grammatical function, grammatical items get additional functions, and grammars are created. Leading scholars from around the world introduce and discuss the core theoretical and methodological bases of grammaticalization, report on work in the field, and point to promising directions for new research. They represent every relevant theoretical perspective and approach. Research on grammaticalization and its role in linguistic change encompasses work on languages from every major linguistic family. Its results offer valuable insights for all theoretical frameworks, including generative, construction, and cognitive grammar, and relates to work in fields such as phonology, sociolinguistics, and language acquisition. The handbook provides a full, critical assessment of every aspect of this research. It is divided into five parts, of which the first two are devoted to theory and method, the third and fourth to work in linguistic domains, classes, and cateogories, and the fifth to case studies of grammaticalization in a range of languages. It will be an indispensable source of information and inspiration for all those who wish to know more about this fascinating and important field.

Heiko Narrog is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Tohoku University. He has published in Japanese and American journals on diachronic syntax. His books include Japanische Verbflexive und flektierbare Suffixe (Harrassowitz 1999) and Modality in Japanese (Benjamins 2009). He is currently working on a book, Modality, Subjectivity, and Semantic Change: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective, to be published by OUP in 2012.

Bernd Heine is Emeritus Professor at the Institute of African Studies (Institut fur Afrikanistik), University of Cologne. His 33 books include Possession: Cognitive sources, forces, and grammaticalization (CUP, 1997); Auxiliaries: Cognitive forces and grammaticalization (OUP, 1993); Cognitive Foundations of Grammar (OUP USA, 1997); with Derek Nurse, African Languages: An introduction (CUP, 2000), A Linguistic Geography of Africa (CUP, 2007); with Tania Kuteva, World Lexicon of Grammaticalization (CUP, 2002), Language Contact and Grammatical Change (CUP, 2005), The Changing Languages of Europe (OUP, 2006), and The Genesis of Grammar (OUP, 2008).

1. Introduction, Bernd Heine and Heiko Narrog
Part I: Grammaticalization and Linguistic Theory
2. Grammaticalization and Mechanisms of Change, Elizabeth Traugott
3. Grammaticalization as Analogically Driven Change, Olga Fischer
4. Grammaticalization and Generative Grammar, Elly van Gelderen
5. Grammaticalization and Functional Linguistics, Peter Harder and Kasper Boye
6. Usage-based Theory and Grammaticalization, Joan Bybee
7. Grammaticalization and Cognitive Grammar, Ronald Langacker
8. Grammaticalization and Construction Grammar, Nikolas Gisborne and Amanda Patten
9. Grammaticalization and Linguistic Typology, Walter Bisang
10. Grammaticalization and Sociolinguistics, Terttu Nevalainen and Minna Palander-Collin
11. Grammaticalization and Language Acquisition, Holger Diessel
12. Grammaticalization and Language Evolution, Andrew Smith
13. Grammaticalization and Linguistic Complexity, Osten Dahl
14. Grammaticalization and Directionality, Kersti Borjars and Nigel Vincent
15. Grammaticalization and Explanation, Marianne Mithun
16. Grammaticalization: A General Critique, Brian Joseph
Part II: Methodological Issues
17. Grammaticalization and Linguistic Variation, Shana Poplack
18. Collocations in Grammaticalization and Variation, Rena Torres Cacoullos and James Walker
19. Grammaticalization and Corpus Linguistics, Christian Mair
20. Grammaticalization and Language Change in the Individual, Helena Raumolin-Brunberg and Arja Nurmi
21. Grammaticalization in Non-Standard Varieties of English, Bernd Kortmann and Agnes Schneider
22. Grammaticalization and Language Contact, Yaron Matras
23. The Areal Dimension of Grammaticalization, Bernd Heine and Tania Kuteva
24. Degrees of Grammaticalization Across Languages, Walter De Mulder and Beatrice Lamiroy
25. Grammaticalization and Semantic Maps, Heiko Narrog and Johan van der Auwera
Part III: Domains of Grammaticalization
26. Grammaticalization and Prosody, Anne Wichmann
27. The Gradual Coelescence into 'Words' in Grammaticalization, Martin Haspelmath
28. Grammaticalization and Word Formation, Ilse Wischer
29. grammaticalization and Syntax - A Functional View, Scott DeLancey
30. Grammaticalization and Word Order Change, Chaofen Sun and Elizabeth Traugott
31. Grammaticalization and Semantic Change, Regine Eckardt
32. Pragmatic Aspects of Grammaticalization, Steve Nicolle
33. Grammaticalization and Discourse, Richard Waltereit
34. Grammaticalization and Conversation, Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen
35. Grammaticalization and Lexicalization, Douglas Lightfoot
36. Grammaticalization and Pragmaticalization, Gabriele Diewald
37. Iconicity Versus grammaticalization: A Case Study, John Haiman
38. Degrammaticalization, Muriel Norde
Part IV: Grammaticalization of Form Classes and Categories
39. The Grammaticalization of Agreement, Elly van Gelderen
40. Adverbial Grammaticalization, Paolo Ramat
41. The Grammaticalization of Adpositions and Case Marking, Christa Konig
42. The Grammaticalization of Definite Articles, Walter De Mulder and Anne Carlier
43. The Grammaticalization of Passives, Bjorn Wiemer
44. Auxiliaries and Grammaticalization, Manfred Krug
45. The Grammaticalization of Complex Predicates, Laurel J. Brinton
46. Negative Cycles and Grammaticalization, Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen
47. The Grammaticalization of Tense and Aspect, Kees Hengeveld
48. The Grammaticalization of Modality, Debra Ziegeler
49. The Grammaticality of Evidentiality, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
50. The Grammaticalization of Discourse Markers, Noriko Onodera
51. The Grammaticalization of Reference Systems, Zygmunt Frajzyngier
52. The Grammaticalization of Subordination, Toshio Ohori
53. The Grammaticalization of Quotatives, Guy Deutscher
54. The Grammaticalization of Coordinating Interclausal Connectives, Anna Giacalone Ramat and Caterina Mauri
55. The Grammaticalization of Final Particles, Sandra A. Thompson and Ryoko Suzuki
Part V: The Different Faces of Grammaticalization Across Languages
56. Grammaticalization in Sign Languages, Roland Pfau and Markus Steinbach
57. Grammaticalization in African Languages, Bernd Heine
58. Grammaticalization in Germanic Languages, Martin Hilpert
59. Grammaticalization From Latin to Romance, Adam Ledgeway
60. Grammaticalization in Brazilian Portuguese, Mario Eduardo Martelotta and Maria Maura Cezario
61. Grammaticalization in Slavic Languages, Bjorn Wiemer
62. Grammaticalization in Turkic Languages, Lars Johanson
63. Grammaticalization in Korean, Seongha Rhee
64. Grammaticalization in Japanese, Heiko Narrog and Toshio Ohori
65. Grammaticalization in Sinitic Languages, Hilary Chappell and Alain Peyraube
References
Subject Index