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Connecting Grammaticalisation; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; part i Grammaticalisation and paradigmatic structure; Morphology; 1. Grammaticalisation and morphology; 2. Basic concepts; 3. The cline of grammaticality: Deficiencies of the theory; 4. Morphological change; 5. The cline revisited; 6. Words and clitics; 7. The grammatical system; 8. Analogy; 9. Markedness and productivity; 9.1 Paradigmatic markedness; 9.2 Variational markedness; 9.3 Markedness of context; 9.4 Markedness and productivity; Topology (word order); 1. Introduction

2. Paradigms and word order3. Innovative topology; 4. Reanalysis from earlier topology; 4.1 Principles of topological analysis; 4.2 Verb second and Wackernagel; 4.3 Old English synchrony and a possible scenario for Scandinavian verb second; 5. Degrammation of word order paradigms?; 6. Examples of topological oppositions integrated in hyperparadigmatic structures; 6.1 Complex constituent formation; 6.2 Wackernagel's law in Latin; 6.3 Old French topology and the tonic - atonic pronominal system - an example of connecting grammaticalisation; Constructions; 1. Introduction

2. Definitions and motivations for introducing the level of constructions2.1 Definition and exemplification of constructions; 2.2 Constructions are language specific; 2.3 The transitive construction S-V-O; 2.4 Overview of paradigmatic oppositions between constructions; 2.4.1 Telicity in objects; 2.4.2 Ergativity in purely constructional paradigms; 2.4.3 Nonspecificity of objects; 2.4.4 Augmenting from two arguments to three; 2.4.5 Telicity in free indirect object constructions; 2.4.6 Types of construction.; 2.5 Morphological marking instead of constructional oppositions

2.6 Hyperparadigmatic organisation2.7 Conclusion of Section 2; 3. Constructions and language change; 3.1 Regrammation of constructions; 3.2 Lexical change and constructional change; 3.2.1 Causative morphology and causative constructions; 3.2.2 Reinterpretation and regrammation of constructions; 3.2.3 Ejection of non-prototypical verbs; 3.3 Further examples of relexicalisation between constructions; 3.3.1 Voler; 3.3.2 Forbid; 3.3.3 Verbs of electronic communication; 3.4 Conclusion of Section 3; Connecting grammaticalisation; 1. Grammation, regrammation and degrammation of complex paradigms

2. Grammation, regrammation and degrammation of parallel (sets of) paradigms2.1 One content system in more than one expression system; 2.2 Semantically complementary systems; 3. Connecting paradigms vs. layering; part ii Case studies; Patterns of connecting grammaticalisation in Russian; 1. Old Russian syntax; 2. Animacy as a gender; 2.1 Animacy in Modern Russian; 2.2 The problem; 2.3 From Old Russian to Modern Russian; 2.3.1 The syntax of the Old Russian noun phrase; 2.3.2 The rise of animacy as a gender; 3. Aspect; 4. Parallel grammaticalisation as a type of connecting grammaticalisation

Word order change as grammaticalisation

This monograph presents a view on grammaticalisation radically different from standard views centering around the cline of grammaticality. Grammar is seen as a complex sign system, and, as a consequence, grammatical change always comprises semantic change. What unites morphology, topology (word order), constructional syntax and other grammatical subsystems is their paradigmatic organisation. The traditional concept of an inflexional paradigm is generalised as the structuring principle of grammar. Grammatical change involves paradigmatic restructuring, and in the process of grammatical change m.