Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Pragmaticalization: Language change between text and grammar - Introduction to the volume -- Part I: Pragmaticalization: Pro and contra -- 1 "Pragmaticalization" or "(inter)subjectification" of Slavic aspect - where does it apply? -- 2 The parameters of pragmaticalization -- 3 Rebalancing indexicality. Why we might not need the concept of pragmaticalization -- Part II: Pragmaticalization of discourse markers and constructions -- 4 Imperatives of visual perception verbs as discourse markers: The case of šūf in Moroccan Arabic -- 5 On the emergence and pragmatic functions of discourse markers of interruption: A case in Korean -- 6 The pragmaticalization of constructions: The Russian discourse items kak by to/tam ni bylo 'however that may be' and čto by to/tam ni bylo 'whatever it is' -- Part III: Pragmaticalization and language contact -- 7 Competing constructions and language contact: Slavic discourse-structuring elements on the basis of non-finite verba dicendi -- 8 Pragmaticalization and pragmatic borrowing in Resian -- Part IV: Pragmaticalization: Pathways of change -- 9 Imperatives as a source for the emergence of new particles in Russian -- 10 The paths of pragmaticalization: Russian pronouns of "free choice" (synchrony and diachrony) -- 11 Milestones of pragmaticalization: Russian pragmatic markers -- 12 The Russian interrogative particle razve: The pragmaticalization path -- Subject index