Frontmatter -- Contents -- Part I. General issues -- What makes grammaticalization? An appraisal of its components and its frings -- Lexicalisation and grammaticalization: Opposite or orthogonal? -- Part II. On builiding grammar from below and from above: Between phonology and pragmatics -- Exploring grammaticalization from below -- Grammaticalization v. pragmaticaliuation? The development of pragmatic markers in German and Italian -- Grammaticalization without coevolution of form and meaning: The case of tense-aspect in East and mainland Southeast Asia -- The rise of an indefinite article: The case of Macedonian eden -- Part III. Grammatical derivation -- Grammaticalization via extending derivation -- Grammaticalization the derivational way: The Russian aspectual prefixes po-, za-, ot- -- Part IV. The role of lexical semantics and of constructions -- The role of predicate meaning in the devekopment of reflexivity -- Modals and the boundaries of grammaticalization: the case of Russian, Polish and Serbian-Croatian -- The evolution of passives as grammatical constructions in Northern Slavic and Baltic languages -- Backmatter