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1. Acknowledgements; 2. List of contributors; 3. Synchrony and diachrony: Introduction to a dynamic interface (by Giacalone Ramat, Anna); 4. Part I. The role of analogy and constructions in the synchrony-diachrony interface; 5. Gradualness in language change: A constructional perspective (by Trousdale, Graeme); 6. Gradual change and continual variation: The history of a verb-initial construction in Welsh (by Currie, Oliver); 7. Can you literally be scared sick?: The role of analogy in the rise of a network of Resultative and Degree Modifier constructions (by Margerie, Helene); 8. The reputed sense of be meant to: A case of gradual change by analogy (by Disney, Steve); 9. Gradualness in analogical change as a complexification stage in a language simplification process: A case study from Modern Greek dialects (by Melissaropoulou, Dimitra); 10. Part II. Synchronic variation and language change; 11. Semantic maps, for synchronic and diachronic typology (by Auwera, Johan van der); 12. Synchronic gradience and language change in Latin genitive constructions (by Magni, Elisabetta); 13. Double agreement in the Alpine languages: An intermediate stage in the development of inflectional morphemes (by Wratil, Melani); 14. On variation in gender agreement: The neutralization of pronominal gender in Dutch (by De Vos, Lien); 15. Synchronic Variation and Grammatical Change: The case of Dutch double gender nouns (by Semplicini, Chiara); 16. A case study on the relationship between grammatical change and synchronic variation: The emergence of tipo[-N] in Italian (by Voghera, Miriam); 17. Grammaticalization in the present - The changes of modern Swedish typ (by Rosenkvist, Henrik); 18. Part III. Gradualness in language change; 19. Gradualness in change in English (augmented) absolutes (by Pol, Nikki van de); 20. Grammatical encoding of referentiality in the history of Hungarian (by Egedi, Barbara); 21. Gradualness in contact-induced constructional replication: The Abstract Possession construction in the Circum-Mediterranean area (by Fedriani, Chiara); 22. Binding Hierarchy and peculiarities of the verb potere in some Southern Calabrian varieties (by De Angelis, Alessandro); 23. Author index; 24. Subject index