As the introductory paper of a collection of articles, this contribution has a threefold purpose. First, it briefly outlines the major developments of research in grammaticalization during the last decades, the most promising ...

The notion of constructions-as the basic semiotic units of language varying in complexity, size and degree of abstraction-has proved to be useful in diachronic research in general and in grammaticalization studies in ...

Review to: Formal evidence in grammaticalization research / ed. by Van linden, An; Verstraete, Jean-Christophe; Davidse, Kristin. - Amsterdam [u.a.] : John Benjamins, 2010 (Typological studies in language ; 94 ), 344 ...