This is a sub-website of the website on linguistics. Its aim is to provide a comprehensive introduction into the conceptual and empirical field of grammaticalization.

Since it was prepared as lecture notes for a series of lectures on grammaticalization, it is, at least in part, organized more by didactic than by systematic principles. The initial sections address beginners, among them students who are unfamiliar with the European linguistic tradition and/or with diachronic linguistics. Since grammaticalization can be fully understood only in its relationship with other kinds of grammatical variation, at least the fundamentals of these latter are introduced, too. Consulting the section ‘Termini’ and the search function of this website may help solve terminological problems.

Bibliographic information on work mentioned in the form of a short reference in the running text, like ‘Lehmann 2015’, is provided in two places: Publications only relevant for the current page are listed at its bottom. All other publications are listed in the general bibliography, which is made available by an item of the navigation menu of every page.