Grammaticalization and language change : new reflections / edited by Kristin Davidse, Tine Breban, Lieselotte Brems, Tanja Mortelmans : in collaboration with Bert Cornillie, Hubert Cuyckens, and Torsten Leuschner.

Includes index.

Introduction: New reflections on the sources, outcomes, defining features and motivations of grammaticalizatión /Tine Breban, Jeroen Vanderbiesen, Kristian Davidse, Lieselotte Brems and Tanja Davidse. -- Bühler's two-field theory of pointing and naming and the deictic origins of grammatical morphemes /Holger Diessel. -- On the origins of grammaticalization and other types of language change in discurse strategies /Richard Waltereit. -- Lehmann's parameters revisited /Muriel Norde. -- "Paradigmatic integration" : the fourth stage in an expanded grammaticalization scenario /Gabriele Diewald and Elena Smirnova. -- "The ghosts of old morphology" : lexicalization or (de)grammaticalization? //Laurel J. Brinton. -- Grammaticalization, constructions and the grammaticalization of constructions /Graeme Trousdale. -- Gradualness of grammaticalization in Romance. The position of French, Spanish and Italian / Walter De Mulder and Béatrice Lamiroy. -- Development of periphrastic tense and aspect constructions in Irish and Welsh /Patricia Ronan. -- Emergence and grammaticalization of constructions within the se me network of Spanish /Chantal Melis and Marcela Flores. -- A discourse-based analysis of object clitic doubling in Spanish /Victoria Vázquez Rozas and Marcos garcía Salido. -- The many careers of negative polarity items /Regine Eckardt.