by Kees Hengeveld (Editor), Heiko Narrog (Editor), Hella Olbertz (Editor)

This book brings together a series of contributions to the study of grammaticalization of tense, aspect, and modality from a functional perspective. All contributions share the aim to uncover the functional motivations behind the processes of grammaticalization under discussion, but they do so from different points of view.

Author Biography

K. Hengeveld, University of Amsterdam; H. Narrog, Tohoku University, Japan; H. Olbertz, University of Amsterdam.