Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: Grammaticalization -- Grammaticalization in Chinese - A cross-linguistic perspective -- Establishing transphrastic relations: On the grammaticalization of demonstratives -- From denotation to description: Noun-adjective and verb-adjective polysemy in Chinese -- New insights on the historical evolution of differential object marking (DOM) in Chinese -- An associated motion approach to northern Mandarin motion-cum-purpose patterns -- Semantic extension in Old Chinese: Direction, transitivity, and voice -- A new approach to the development of deontic markers: In Pre-Modern Chinese -- A typology of non-clausal postpositioning in German dialects -- Part II: Lexicalization -- Ket polysynthesis, grammaticalization, and lexicalization -- A lexical category in Shāng Chinese: Vcontrollable vs. Vuncontrollable -- Non-specific degree: Chinese gradable adjectives -- Compounding word-formation in Ahou Gelao -- Subject Index -- Language Index