Diachronic syntax : models and mechanisms

Susan Pintzuk · George Tsoulas · ANTHONY R. WARNER

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Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation Linguistics and language evolution Historical Linguistics and Language Studies

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1. Syntactic Change: Theory and Method PART I: FRAMEWORKS FOR THE UNDERSTANDING OF CHANGE 2. Competition and Correspondence in Syntactic Change: Null Arguments in Latin and Romance 3. Jespersen's Cycle Revisited: Formal Properties of Grammaticalization 4. Evolutionary Perspectives on Diachronic Syntax PART II: THE COMPARATIVE BASIS OF DIACHRONIC SYNTAX 5. Adjuncts and the Syntax of Subjects in Old and Middle English 6. Verb-Object Order in Early Middle English 7. Null Subjects in Middle English Existentials PART III: MECHANISMS OF SYNTACTIC CHANGE 8. Polarity Items in Romance: Underspecification and Lexical Change 9. Relabelling 10. The Value of Definite Determiners from Old Spanish to Modern Spanish 11. From OV to VO in Swedish 12. The Evolution of Do-Support in English Imperatives 13. Interacting Movements in the History of Icelandic 14. Verb Movement in Slavonic Conditionals

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