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.

1 - Introduction
2 - Grammaticalization and Mechanisms of Change
3 - Grammaticalization as Analogically Driven Change
4 - Grammaticalization and Generative Grammar
5 - Grammaticalization and Functional Linguistics
6 - Usage-based Theory and Grammaticalization
7 - Grammaticalization and Cognitive Grammar
8 - Grammaticalization and Construction Grammar
9 - Grammaticalization and Linguistic Typology
10 - Grammaticalization and Sociolinguistics
11 - Grammaticalization and Language Acquisition
12 - Grammaticalization and Language Evolution
13 - Grammaticalization and Linguistic Complexity
14 - Grammaticalization and Directionality
15 - Grammaticalization and Explanation
16 - Grammaticalization: A General Critique
17 - Grammaticalization and Linguistic Variation
18 - Collocations in Grammaticalization and Variation
19 - Grammaticalization and Corpus Linguistics
20 - Grammaticalization and Language Change in the Individual
21 - Grammaticalization in Non-Standard Varieties of English
22 - Grammaticalization and Language Contact
23 - The Areal Dimension of Grammaticalization
24 - Degrees of Grammaticalization Across Languages
25 - Grammaticalization and Semantic Maps
26 - Grammaticalization and Prosody
27 - The Gradual Coelescence into 'Words' in Grammaticalization
28 - Grammaticalization and Word Formation
29 - grammaticalization and Syntax - A Functional View
30 - Grammaticalization and Word Order Change
31 - Grammaticalization and Semantic Change
32 - Pragmatic Aspects of Grammaticalization
33 - Grammaticalization and Discourse
34 - Grammaticalization and Conversation
35 - Grammaticalization and Lexicalization
36 - Grammaticalization and Pragmaticalization
37 - Iconicity Versus grammaticalization: A Case Study
38 - Degrammaticalization
39 - The Grammaticalization of Agreement
40 - Adverbial Grammaticalization
41 - The Grammaticalization of Adpositions and Case Marking
42 - The Grammaticalization of Definite Articles
43 - The Grammaticalization of Passives
44 - Auxiliaries and Grammaticalization
45 - The Grammaticalization of Complex Predicates
46 - Negative Cycles and Grammaticalization
47 - The Grammaticalization of Tense and Aspect
48 - The Grammaticalization of Modality
49 - The Grammaticality of Evidentiality
50 - The Grammaticalization of Discourse Markers
51 - The Grammaticalization of Reference Systems
52 - The Grammaticalization of Subordination
53 - The Grammaticalization of Quotatives
54 - The Grammaticalization of Coordinating Interclausal Connectives
55 - The Grammaticalization of Final Particles
56 - Grammaticalization in Sign Languages
57 - Grammaticalization in African Languages
58 - Grammaticalization in Germanic Languages
59 - Grammaticalization From Latin to Romance
60 - Grammaticalization in Brazilian Portuguese
61 - Grammaticalization in Slavic Languages
62 - Grammaticalization in Turkic Languages
63 - Grammaticalization in Korean
64 - Grammaticalization in Japanese
65 - Grammaticalization in Sinitic Languages

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 für 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).