This volume explores the way in which grammaticalization processes converge and differ across languages and language areas. Chapters systemically explore these processes languages of Africa, Europe, Asia and the Pacific, and the Americas, and in creole languages, revealing a number of unique pathways as well as shared features.

1: Heiko Narrog and Bernd Heine: Introduction: Typology and grammaticalization 2: Bernd Heine: Grammaticalization in Africa: Two contrasting hypothese 3: Mohssen Esseesy: Typological features of grammaticalization in Semitic 4: Geoffrey Haig: Grammaticalization and inflectionalization in Iranian 5: Östen Dahl: Grammaticalization in the languages of Europe 6: Martin Haspelmath: Revisiting the anasynthetic spiral 7: Peter Arkadiev &Timur Maisak: Grammaticalization in the North Caucasian Languages 8: Lars Johanson and Éva Á. Csató: Grammaticalization in Turkic 9: Heiko Narrog, Seongha Rhee, and John Whitman: Grammaticalization in Japanese and Korean 10: Alexander R. Coupe: Grammaticalization processes in the languages of South Asia 11: Umberto Ansaldo, Walter Bisang, and Pui Yiu Szeto: Grammaticalization in isolating languages and the notion of complexity 12: Marian Klamer: Typology and grammaticalization in the Papuan languages of Timor, Alor, and Pantar 13: Ilana Mushin: Grammaticalization and typology in Australian Aboriginal languages: Evidence from second position clitic constructions 14: Claire Moyse-Faurie: Grammaticalization in Oceanic languages 15: Marianne Mithun: Shaping typology through grammaticalization: North America 16: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: Areal diffusion and the limits of grammaticalization: An Amazonian perspective 17: Roberto Zariquiey: Diachronic stories of body-part nouns in some language families of South America 18: Hiram Smith: Addressing questions of grammaticalization in creoles: It's all about the methodology 19: John McWhorter: Is grammaticalization in Creoles different? References Index

Heiko Narrog is Professor at Tohoku University. He received a PhD in Japanese Studies from the Ruhr University Bochum in 1997, and a PhD in Language Studies from Tokyo University in 2002. He is the author of Modality in Japanese and the Layered Structure of the Clause (Benjamins, 2009), and Modality, Subjectivity, and Semantic Change: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective (OUP, 2012) as well as numerous articles in linguistic typology, semantics and language change, and Japanese linguistics. Bernd Heine is Emeritus Professor at the Institute of African Studies, University of Cologne. He has held visiting professorships at universities across the world, including Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, La Trobe University, the University of Cape Town, Dartmouth College, and Universidade Federal Fluminense. His many publications include The Changing Languages of Europe (OUP, 2006) and The Genesis of Grammar: A Reconstruction (OUP, 2007), both with Tania Kuteva. Bernd Heine and Heiko Narrog are co-editors of the OUP volumes The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis (2010; second edition 2015) and The Oxford Handbook of Grammaticalization (2010).