Theoretical and Empirical Issues in Grammaticalization

This volume and its companion one Rethinking grammaticalization: New perspectives offer a selection of papers from the Third International Conference New Reflections on Grammaticalization , held at the University of Santiago de Compostela in July 2005. The overall aim of the book is to enrich our understanding of what grammaticalization entails via detailed case studies in combination with theoretical and methodological discussions. Some of the theoretical issues discussed in the sixteen article