Current Trends in Diachronic Semantics and Pragmatics -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- 1. Current Trends in Diachronic Semantics and Pragmatics -- 2. APO: Avoid Pragmatic Overload -- 3. Diachronic Pathways and Pragmatic Strategies: Different Types of Pragmatic Particles from a Diachronic Point of View -- 4. Context Sensitive Changes: The Development of the Affirmative Markers godt 'good' and vel 'well' in Danish -- 5. Procatalepsis and the Etymology of Hedging and Boosting Particles -- 6. Central/Peripheral Functions of allora and 'Overall Pragmatic Configuration': A Diachronic Perspective -- 7. The Importance of Paradigms in Grammaticalisation: Spanish Digressive Markers por cierto and a propósito -- 8. The Multiple Origin of es que in Modern Spanish: Diachronic Evidence -- 9. From Aspect/Mood Marker to Discourse Particle: Reconstructing Syntactic and Semantic Change -- 10. The Grammaticalization Channels of Evidentials and Modal Particles in German: Integration in Textual Structures as a Common Feature -- 11. Evidentiality, Epistemicity, and their Diachronic Connections to Non-Factuality -- 12. The Grammaticalization of Negative Reinforcers in Old and Middle French: A Discourse-Functional Approach -- 13. A Roots Journey of a French Preposition -- 14. The Grammaticalization of Privative Adjectives: The Case of Mere -- 15. The Origin of Semantic Change in Discourse Tradition: A Case Study.