Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Grammatical concepts used in this work; 3. Source-target lexicon.

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Based on analysis of more than 1,000 languages, this volume reconstructs more than 500 processes of grammatical change in the languages of the world.

About the Author

Tania Kuteva is a Full Professor of English Linguistics at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany and Professorial Research Associate of School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Bernd Heine is Emeritus Professor at the Institute of African Studies and Egyptology, Universität zu Köln, Germany. Bo Hong is Professor in the School of Literature, Capital Normal University, Beijing. Haiping Long is a Professor of linguistics in the English Department, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou. Heiko Narrog is Professor at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. Seongha Rhee is Professor of Linguistics at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul.