Based on analysis of more than 1,000 languages, this volume reconstructs more than 500 processes of grammatical change in the languages of the world.

Tania Kuteva is a Full Professor of English Linguistics at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany and Professorial Research Associate of School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

1. Introduction; 2. Grammatical concepts used in this work; 3. Source-target lexicon.