The Oxford Handbook of Grammaticalization

Heiko Narrog is Professor at the Graduate School of International Cualtural Studies, Tohoku University. He received a PhD in Japanese Studies from the Ruhr University Bochum in 1997, and a PhD in Language Studies from Tokyo University in 2002. His publications inclde Modality in Japanese and the Layered Structure of the Clause (Benjamins, 2009), and Modality, Subjectivity, and Semantic Change: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective (OUP, 2012) as well asnumerous articles in linguistic typology, semantics and language change, and Japanese linguistics.Bernd Heine is Emeritus Professor at the Institute of African Studies and Egyptology, University of Cologne. He has held visiting professorships at universities across the world, and in 2009 received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Evolutionary Linguistics Association. His many publications include African Languages: An Introduction (CUP, 200), A Linguistic Geography of Africa (CUP, 2008), and the OUP volumes The Changing Languages of Europe (2006) and TheGenesis of Grammar: A Reconstruction (2007), both with Tania Kuteva.Heiko Narrog and Bernd Heine are co-editors of the OUP volumes The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis (2010; second edition 2015) and Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective (2018), and o-authors of the OUP textbook Grammaticalization (2021).