Grammaticalization Scenarios. Areal Patterns and Cross-linguistic Variation.: A Comparative Handbook (Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics)

This volume intends to fill the gap in the grammaticalization studies setting as its goal the systematic description of grammaticalization processes in genealogically and structurally diverse languages. To address the problem of the limitations of the secondary sources for grammaticalization studies, the editors rely on sketches of grammaticalization phenomena from experts in individual languages guided by a typological questionnaire.