Based on a workshop at the New Reflections on Grammaticalization 4 conference held at KU Leuven in July 2008, this title contains a collection of papers which investigate the relationship between synchronic gradience and the apparent gradualness of linguistic change, largely from the perspective of grammaticalization.

1. Contributors; 2. Acknowledgements; 3. Preface (by Trousdale, Graeme); 4. Gradience, gradualness and grammaticalization: How do they intersect? (by Traugott, Elizabeth Closs); 5. Grammaticalization, the clausal hierarchy and semantic bleaching (by Roberts, Ian); 6. Grammatical interference: Subject marker for and the phrasal verb particles out and forth (by De Smet, Hendrik); 7. Category change in English with and without structural change (by Denison, David); 8. Features in reanalysis and grammaticalization (by Gelderen, Elly van); 9. How synchronic gradience makes sense in the light of language change (and vice versa) (by Rosenbach, Anette); 10. What can synchronic gradience tell us about reanalysis?: Verb-first conditionals in written German and Swedish (by Hilpert, Martin); 11. A paradigmatic approach to language and language change (by Schosler, Lene); 12. Grammaticalization and the it-cleft construction (by Patten, Amanda L.); 13. Grammaticalization in Chinese: A construction-based account (by Bisang, Walter); 14. Grammaticalization and models of language (by Vincent, Nigel); 15. Language index; 16. Subject index