Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Passives -- Venire ('come') as a passive auxiliary in Italian1 -- Passive in motion: the Early Italian auxiliary andare ('to go') -- The Multiple Grammaticalization of Romanian veni 'come'. Focusing on the Passive Construction -- Mood and modality -- When come and go go necessive -- Go and come as sources of directive constructions -- Discourse functions -- The Spanish auxiliary ir 'to go': from resultative motion verb to focus marker -- On the grammaticalization of venga 'come' as a discourse marker in Peninsular Spanish -- The grammaticalization of 'go' as an intensifier in Supyire -- Motion verbs in Shangaci: lexical semantics and discourse functions -- Conclusion -- How far have we come and where do we go from here? Discussion and directions for further research -- Subject index -- Language index