none 10.1075/tsl.49.08hei John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 67868138 1421508 1421459 202507031732000001 10.1075 2025-07-03T11:30:56Z 2014-03-24T04:10:30Z 381 0167-7373 10.1075/tsl https://benjamins.com/ catalog/tsl Ilse Wischer University of Potsdam https://ror.org/03bnmw459 Gabriele Diewald University of Hamburg https://ror.org/00g30e956 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 direction of grammaticalization studies. The volume focuses on issues such as grammaticalization and lexicalization; the unidirectionality hypothesis; the issue of the relevance of contexts for grammaticalization; the description of grammaticalization paths. Much of the current work concentrates on such categories, as discourse markers, honorifics or classifiers, which have not previously been central to works on grammaticalization. Other studies take a new perspective on known grammaticalization paths by applying concepts adopted from other linguistic fields, such as prototype theory, morphocentricity, or by discussing their findings from a comparative or typological angle, presenting data from a large number of languages, often based on extensive empirical investigations of written and spoken text corpora. 49 4 12 2002 1 1 2003 9789027229540 9781588111210 9789027229557 9781588111227 9789027297211 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam 10.1075/tsl.49 http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027297211 https://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/9789027297211.pdf https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/tsl.49/html Bernd Heine University of Cologne https://ror.org/00rcxh774 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9304-7814 4 12 2002 1 1 2003 83 101 10.1075/tsl.49.08hei https://benjamins.com/catalog/tsl.49.08hei https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/tsl.49.08hei/html