Frontmatter -- Contents -- Glosses -- Introduction -- I. Directionality of grammaticalization -- processes -- Unidirectionality of grammaticalization in an -- evolutionary perspective -- Grammaticalization and sets of form-functionpairs: -- Encoding spatial concepts in Greek -- II. Nominal categories and adpositions -- Grammaticalization of Korean numeral -- classifiers -- Grammaticalization of spatial adpositions in -- Nànáfwê -- On the grammaticalization of the German preposition -- von as a genitive equivalent -- III. Verbal categories -- The grammaticalization of agreement in -- Chibchan -- Decay and loss of applicatives in Siouan languages: -- A grammaticalization perspective -- Reciprocals in the making: multiple -- grammaticalization in Manambu -- The Maltese continuative: A grammaticalization -- borderliner -- What do "do" verbs do? The semantic diversity of -- generalised action verbs -- Predicting a future change: Relative clauses of -- Japanese -- IV. Grammaticalization and constructions -- The catalytic function of constructional -- restrictions in grammaticalization -- Grammaticalization of periphrastic -- constructions -- Grammaticalization in constructions: Clitic -- doubling with experiencers in Modern Greek -- Grammaticalization of honorific constructions in -- Japanese -- From cause to contrast: A study in semantic -- change -- Backmatter