Grammaticalization and Pragmatics: Facts, Approaches, Theoretical Issues -- Copyright page -- Editorial Board -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Overview of the Chapters1 -- Bibliography -- Chapter 1. Word Order from Latin to French: A Case of Grammaticalization (from Pragmatics to Syntactics) or of Typological Coherence? -- 1. Grammaticalization: Definition, Outline, Limits -- 2. Word Order from Latin to French: The Sentence -- 3. Change at the Syntagmatic Level: Modifier-Head Head-Modifier: A Move Towards Increased Typological Coherence? -- 4. Macro-grammaticalizations? -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2. Auxiliaries and Grammaticalization: A Case Study of Germanic and Slavonic Languages -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Complementation Pattern of Tam Verbs and Grammaticalization -- 3. Complementation Pattern of Dutch Tam Verbs -- 4. Complementation Pattern of Serbian Tam Verbs -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgment -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3. From the Confession of Ignorance to the Indefinite: What Impact for a Theory of Grammaticalization? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Grammaticalization: Definitions and Main Issues -- 3. 'Grafts' and Linguistic Change -- 4. Concluding Remarks -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4. The Approximators French Comme, Italian Come, Portuguese Como and Spanish Como from a Grammaticalization Perspective -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Grammaticalization, Pragmaticalization, Lexicalization -- 3. The Source Expression -- 4. Further Steps of Pragmaticalization -- 5. Contact-Induced Pragmaticalization -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5. The Spanish Discourse Marker Por Cierto: A Non-Standard Case of Grammaticalization -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Grammaticalization of Discourse Markers -- 3. A Historical Analysis.

4. Por Cierto and the Standard Model of Grammaticalization -- 5. An Alternative Attempt of Explanation: Acquisition and Spread of Changes -- 6. Conclusions -- Appendix 1. Present-Day Spanish Translations for each Example -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6. The Polysemy of Devoir: A Contrastive and Diachronic Analysis -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Different Values of Devoir -- 3. Devoir as an Indicator of the Existence of Aninformation Source -- 4. The Romanian Presumptive Mood as an Indication of absence of Source -- 5. The Counterparts of Devoir in Romanian -- 6. Diachronic Perspective -- 7. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7. On the Diachrony of "Reinforced" Negation in French and Italian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Analyses -- 3. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Data Sources -- Chapter 8. Nominal Utterances with Lexical Repetition: Effects of Grammaticalization? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Configurations which are Superficially with "Grammaticalized Apposition" -- 3. Aspects of the "Grammaticalized Apposition" -- 4. Other Functions, Other Determiners -- 5. Grammaticalization? Notes in View of Further Investigation -- Chapter 9. The Use of Anti- in Contemporary French: A Case of Degrammaticalization? -- 1. Preamble -- 2. Inventory of Contemporary Uses of Anti -- 3. What Explanation for Contemporary [Anti-…] Sequences? -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography.