Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 General introduction -- 2 Looking at grammaticalization from the perspective of short-time changes in real time -- 3 A quantum of salience -- 4 Maximizing the data-drivenness of grammaticalization research -- 5 From chance to epistemic possibility -- 6 The structured nature of prepositional meaning -- 7 Competition in antagonistic verb complementation -- 8 Promoting and inhibiting forces at work -- 9 Making interpretation redundant -- 10 Straddling a syntactic divide -- 11 The development of prose style in English horse manuals -- Index