The Grammaticalization of Verbs. Verbs as Sources of Grammatical Change

1. Introduction2. Grammaticalization and its Meaning3. Where Does Grammar Come From?4. Characteristics of Grammaticalization5. Motivations for Grammaticalization6. From Source to Target: Basicness as Relevance Factor7. Auxiliary Verbs7.1. Auxiliation Chains7.1.1. Verb-to-TAM Chains7.2. Stages of Auxiliation7.3. Sit Stand and Lie as Aspectual Markers7.3.1. The Evolution of the Sit/Stand/Lie Aspectual Structure7.3.2. Shift from Locative to Temporal Meaning7.4. The Future: It Comes It Goes It Has to Be7.4.1. Pathways of Future7.4.2. From Desire to Prediction7.4.3. From Motion-in-Space to Progress-in-Time7.4.5. Obligation Futures7.5. The Case of Used to8. From Verb to Preposition8.1. Prerequisites and Conditioning Factors8.1.1. European Languages8.1.2. Serial Verb Languages8.2. Semantic Morphological and Phonological Changes8.2.1. Between Verb and Preposition8.2.2. Coalescence and Phonological Erosion8.3. Source and Target Domains of Deverbal Prepositions9. The Evolution of Complementizers9.1. The Grammaticalization of a 'Say' Verb in Ewe9.2. Evidence from Other Languages9.3. Reanalysis at Work9.4. Universals versus Substrate10. A New Quotative Marker: English Be Like10.1. A Teenage Phenomenon?10.2. A Notoriously Polyfunctional Item10.3. Origin and Evolution of Like10.4. Subjectification11. Conclusion12. Summary (Zusammenfassung)13. Bibliography