Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective

Heiko Narrog is Professor at Tohoku University. He received a PhD in Japanese Studies from the Ruhr University Bochum in 1997, and a PhD in Language Studies from Tokyo University in 2002. He is the author of Modality in Japanese and the Layered Structure of the Clause (Benjamins, 2009), and Modality, Subjectivity, and Semantic Change: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective (OUP, 2012) as well as numerous articles in linguistic typology, semantics and language change, and Japanese linguistics.Bernd Heine is Emeritus Professor at the Institute of African Studies, University of Cologne. He has held visiting professorships at universities across the world, including Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, La Trobe University, the University of Cape Town, Dartmouth College, and Universidade Federal Fluminense. His many publications include The Changing Languages of Europe (OUP, 2006) and The Genesis of Grammar: A Reconstruction (OUP, 2007), both with Tania Kuteva.Bernd Heine and Heiko Narrog are co-editors of the OUP volumes The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis (2010; second edition 2015) and The Oxford Handbook of Grammaticalization (2010).

• 1: Heiko Narrog and Bernd Heine: Introduction: Typology and grammaticalization2: Bernd Heine: Grammaticalization in Africa: Two contrasting hypothese3: Mohssen Esseesy: Typological features of grammaticalization in Semitic4: Geoffrey Haig: Grammaticalization and inflectionalization in Iranian5: Östen Dahl: Grammaticalization in the languages of Europe6: Martin Haspelmath: Revisiting the anasynthetic spiral7: Peter Arkadiev &Timur Maisak: Grammaticalization in the North Caucasian Languages8: Lars Johanson and Éva Á. Csató: Grammaticalization in Turkic9: Heiko Narrog, Seongha Rhee, and John Whitman: Grammaticalization in Japanese and Korean10: Alexander R. Coupe: Grammaticalization processes in the languages of South Asia11: Umberto Ansaldo, Walter Bisang, and Pui Yiu Szeto: Grammaticalization in isolating languages and the notion of complexity12: Marian Klamer: Typology and grammaticalization in the Papuan languages of Timor, Alor, and Pantar13: Ilana Mushin: Grammaticalization and typology in Australian Aboriginal languages: Evidence from second position clitic constructions14: Claire Moyse-Faurie: Grammaticalization in Oceanic languages15: Marianne Mithun: Shaping typology through grammaticalization: North America16: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: Areal diffusion and the limits of grammaticalization: An Amazonian perspective17: Roberto Zariquiey: Diachronic stories of body-part nouns in some language families of South America18: Hiram Smith: Addressing questions of grammaticalization in creoles: It's all about the methodology19: John McWhorter: Is grammaticalization in Creoles different?ReferencesIndex

...there is little doubt that this volume is as a pivotal contribution to its field. As a companion to the study of grammaticalization across language families, it is here to stay. As a contribution to the debates on the nature and definition of grammaticalization, it delivers a considerable amount of new insights, puzzling questions and interesting hypotheses...everyone interested in grammaticalization theory should benefit from reading this collection of papers.