Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Indexes in language and linguistics -- Part I: Theoretical issues -- 2 On the cost of indexicality -- 3 Evolutionary steps for linguistic signs: The place of indexicality -- 4 Indexicality in the minimal/non-minimal (or less minimal) sign relationship -- Part II: Synchronic studies -- 5 Multi-layered indexicality: When proper names become categories -- 6 Paradigmaticization as indexicalization: Medio-passive sich lassen as a member of the paradigm of voice in German -- 7 Domain-straddling indexicality - the Greenlandic causative -- Part III: Diachronic studies -- 8 What's in an -n? The reinterpretation of perfect participle -n in Danish -- 9 From symbol to index: The semiotic harmonisation of the Danish free indirect object -- Index