Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- The development of the Chinese aspectual sentence-final marker yĕ -- The emergence of a definite article in Beijing Mandarin: The evolution of the proximal demonstrative zhè -- The grammaticalization of the directional verb 'lái': A construction grammar approach -- The degree-evaluative construction: Grammaticalization in constructionalization -- The semantic historical development of modal verbs of volition in Chinese -- Semantic change in the grammaticalization of classifiers in Mandarin Chinese -- The repeater in Chinese and other languages -- Lexicalization in the history of the Chinese language -- Argument structure change, reanalysis and lexicalization: Grammaticalization of transitive verbs into ditransitive verbs in Chinese, Japanese and English -- Subject index