This volume deals with different linguistic phenomena representing grammaticalization and
lexicalization processes and combines different approaches of contact linguistics as well as
variational linguistics. It contains papers on clitic placement in Angolan Portuguese on the
use of subject pronouns in French Brazilian Portuguese and Caribbean Spanish on evidential
marking in Paraguayan Spanish on Paraguayan Guaraní on evidentiality in different varieties
of Spanish on discourse markers in Latin America on modal particles in Italian and their
translation into German on bilingual communities in Southern Brazil on Spanish-German-Russian
language contact and on Romance aspectual periphrases in contact with English progressives.
