1. Brief history of grammaticalization; key concepts and principles of the grammaticalization theory

2. Paths of grammaticalization: Verbal phrase – verbal categories (tense & aspect)

3. Paths of grammaticalization: Verbal phrase – auxiliaries, modal verbs

4. Paths of grammaticalization: Determiners – definite articles

5. Paths of grammaticalization: Adpositional and nominal phrase – case & adpositions

6. Paths of grammaticalization: Sentence phrase – agreement, conjunctions, topic-focus constructions, word order changes

7. Paths of grammaticalization: Pragmatic particles

8. Issues in grammaticalizion research: Lexicalization & pragmaticalization; consultation & presentation of research projects

9. Issues in grammaticalizion research: Motivation for grammaticalization; consultation & presentation of research projects

10. Issues in grammaticalizion research: Contact-induced grammaticalization; consultation & presentation of research projects