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Part 1 Groundwork: ritualization and the development of language, JohnHaiman; phonogenesis, Paul J. Hopper. Part 2 Case studies: thegrammaticalization of French, Patricia Kilroe; the development of thedefinite article in French, Richard Epstein; grammaticalization of theperfect in Old English - an account based on pragmatics and metaphor,Kathleen Carey; talking perfectly - discourse origins of the present perfect,Dan I. Slobin; diachrony of clause linkage - TE and BA in Old through MiddleJapanese, Toshio Ohori; the co-development fo finiteness and focus insinhala, John C. Paolillo; discourse morphology - a missing link to cyclicalgrammatical change, Danielle Cyr; word order change as category change - theMande case, Ulrike Claudi. Part 3 Universals and explanation: thegrammaticization of zero - asymmetries in tense and aspect systems, Joan L.Bybee; grammaticalization as an explanatory parameter, Bernd Heine.