"Based on comparative analyses of diachronic data, the articles in this volume address both theoretical and methodological issues in the study of grammaticalization and lexicalization in both Eastern and Western languages. The central question raised and discussed in this volume is how, if any, typological properties of the two genetically unrelated language families interact with the processes of grammaticalization and lexicalization." --.

• Foreword
• Contents
• Contributors
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Part I: Grammaticalization
• Grammaticalization in Chinese – A cross-linguistic perspective
• Establishing transphrastic relations: On the grammaticalization of demonstratives
• From denotation to description: Noun-adjective and verb-adjective polysemy in Chinese
• New insights on the historical evolution of differential object marking (DOM) in Chinese
• An associated motion approach to northern Mandarin motion-cum-purpose patterns
• Semantic extension in Old Chinese: Direction, transitivity, and voice
• A new approach to the development of deontic markers: In Pre-Modern Chinese
• A typology of non-clausal postpositioning in German dialects
• Part II: Lexicalization
• Ket polysynthesis, grammaticalization, and lexicalization
• A lexical category in Shāng Chinese: V_controllable vs. V_{uncontrollable}
• Non-specific degree: Chinese gradable adjectives
• Compounding word-formation in Ahou Gelao
• Subject Index
• Language Index