Based on comparative analyses of diachronic data, the articles in this volume address both theoretical and methodological issues in the study of grammaticalizat

The earliest use of the term “grammaticalization” was to refer to the process whereby lexical words of a language (such as English keep in “he keeps bees”)

Lexicalization, a process of language change, has been conceptualized in a variety of ways. Broadly defined as the adoption of concepts into the lexicon, it has

This is the second of two volumes deriving from papers presented at the Nineteenth Annual UWM linguistics Symposium held in Milwaukee in 1990. It focuses on the

The contributions in this volume cover a wide range of theoretical and methodological issues and raise a number of new questions that indicate the future direct