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1. map 2. Introduction (by Comrie, Bernard) 3. part i. Diachrony, typology, and theory 4. Toward a diachronic typology of relative clause (by Givon, T.) 5. The evolution of language and elaborateness of grammar: The case of relative clauses in creole languages (by Kuteva, Tania) 6. Some issues in the linking between syntax and semantics in relative clauses (by Van Valin Jr., Robert D.) 7. Part II. Uto-Aztecan 8. Relative clauses and nominalizations in Yaqui (by Gonzalez, Albert Alvarez) 9. On relative clauses and related constructions in Yaqui (by Guerrero, Lilian) 10. From demonstrative to relative marker to clause linker: Relative clause formation in Pima Bajo (by Estrada-Fernandez, Zarina) 11. Functional underpinnings of diachrony in relative clause formation: The nominalization-relativization connection in Northern Paiute (by Thornes, Tim) 12. Part III. Elsewhere in the Americas 13. Clauses as noun modifiers in Toba (Guaycuruan) (by Carpio, Maria Belen) 14. Between headed and headless relative clauses (by Epps, Patience) 15. Relative clauses in Seri (by Marlett, Stephen A.) 16. Relative clauses in Gaviao of Rondonia (by Moore, Denny) 17. Relative clauses in Yucatec Maya: Light heads vs. Null domain (by Gutierrez-Bravo, Rodrigo) 18. Questionable relatives (by Mithun, Marianne) 19. Language and language family index 20. Name index 21. Subject index

1. Address list 2. Preface 3. Introduction: New perspectives on grammaticalization (by Lopez-Couso, Maria Jose) 4. Grammaticalization and the areal factor: The perspective of East and mainland Southeast Asian languages (by Bisang, Walter) 5. On the grammaticalization of 'come' and 'go' into markers of textual connectivity (by Bourdin, Philippe) 6. Grammaticalization, typology and semantics: Expanding the agenda (by Frajzyngier, Zygmunt) 7. Mismatch: Grammar distortion and grammaticalization (by Gaeta, Livio) 8. Areal convergence in grammaticalization processes (by Giacalone Ramat, Anna) 9. The grammaticalization of nominalizers in Japanese and Korean: A contrastive study (by Horie, Kaoru) 10. On the frills of grammaticalization (by Kuteva, Tania) 11. Nominalizations in Bodic languages (by Noonan, Michael) 12. On the rise and fall of Korean nominalizers (by Rhee, Seongha) 13. The grammaticalization of clausal nominalizers in Burmese (by Simpson, Andrew) 14. The grammaticalization cline of cardinal numerals and numeral systems (by von Mengden, Ferdinand) 15. The development of nominalizers in East Asian and Tibeto-Burman languages (by Yap, Foong Ha) 16. Index of names 17. Index of languages 18. Index of subjects

1. Acknowledgments 2. Introduction (by Hiraga, Masako K.) 3. Part I: Cultural Patterns, language and cognition 4. Foxy chicks and Playboy bunnies: A case study in metaphorical lexicalization (by Hines, Caitlin) 5. The domain of ancestral spirits in Bantu noun classification (by Palmer, Gary B.) 6. DEFERENCE as DISTANCE: Metaphorical base of honorific verb construction in Japanese (by Hiraga, Masako K.) 7. Spatial conceptualization of time in Chinese (by Yu, Ning) 8. Part II: Psycholinguistic and Neurolinguistic approaches 9. An "intersubjective" method for cognitive-semantic research on polysemy: The case of get (by Raukko, Jarno) 10. Prepositional semantics and the fragile link between space and time (by Rice, Sally) 11. Computability as a limiting cognitive constraint: Complexity concerns in metaphor comprehension about which cognitive linguists should be aware (by Veale, Tony) 12. Metaphor vs. conflation in the acquisition of polysemy: The case of see (by Johnson, Christopher) 13. Acquisition of the Finnish conditional verb forms in formulaic utterances (by Kauppinen, Anneli) 14. Cognitive compositionality: An activation and evaluation hypothesis (by Strohner, Hans) 15. Perceptual simulation in conceptual tasks (by Barsalou, Lawrence W.) 16. Dynamic conceptualization and the substitution of nouns and verbs in aphasia (by Kellogg, M. Kimberly) 17. Neuroscientific evidence against Wierzbicka's analysis of the meanings of basic color terms (by Kemmerer, David) 18. Part III: Typological issues 19. Specification in grammar (by Kuteva, Tania) 20. The typology of 1st person marking and its cognitive background (by Helmbrecht, Johannes) 21. Emergent grammatical relations: Subjecthood in Kapampangan (by Morris, William C.) 22. The story of "break": Cognitive categories of objects and the system of verbs (by Fujii, Yoko) 23. Index 24. List of Contributors