Includes bibliographical references and index.

Grammaticalization in a speaker-oriented theory of change / Henning Andersen -- Degrammaticalization versus typology / John Ole Askedal -- Cascading parameter changes / Theresa Biberauer & Ian Roberts -- The rise and development of analytic perfects in Italo-Romance / Michela Cennamo -- Raising patterns in Old High German / Ulrike Demske -- The new passive in Icelandic really is a passive / Thórhallur Eythórsson -- A mentalist interpretation of grammaticalization theory / Jan Terje Faarlund -- Linguistic cycles and economy principle / Elly van Gelderen -- Explaining exuberant agreement / Alice C. Harris -- From resultatives to anteriors in Ancient Greek / Dag Haug -- Lexical nonsense and morphological sense / Martin Maiden -- The diffusion of systemic changes through the inflectional system / Kjartan Ottosson -- Left branch extraction of nominal modifiers in old Scandinavian / Christer Platzack -- On incorporation in Athapaskan languages / Keren Rice -- Argument marking from Latin to modern Romance languages / Lene Schøsler.

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