Parameters of Morphosyntactic Change

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Introduction: parameters and morphosyntactic change Ans van Kemenade and Nigel Vincent Part I. Aspect, Argument Structure and Case Selection: 1. The interdependence of case, aspect and referentiality in the history of German Werner Abraham 2. The rise of the article in the Germanic languages Julia Philippi 3. The diachronic development of a modal verb of necessity Paola BenincA and Cecilia Poletto 4. Auxiliary verbs in Old and Middle French Philip H. Miller 5. Commentary on part I: aspect, argument structure and case selection Alessandra Tomaselli Part II. Clitics: 6. The emergence of the D-system in Romance Nigel Vincent 7. On two locations for complement clitic pronouns Maria Luisa Rivero 8. On the integration of second position phenomena Josep M. Fontana Part III. Verb Second and Comp: 9. Shifting triggers and diachronic reanalyses David Lightfoot 10. Viewing change in progress Alison Henry 11. Verb movement in Old and Middle English Anthony Kroch and Ann Taylor 12. V2 and embedded topicalization in Old and Middle English Ans van Kemenade 13. Qu'est-ce que ce que: the diachronic evolution of a French complementizer Laurie Zaring and Paul Hirschbuhler 14. The structure of parametric change, and V-movement in the history of English Anthony Warner Part IV. Scrambling and Morphological Change: 15. Directionality and word order change in the history of English Ian Roberts 16. On the relation between morphological and syntactic case Fred Weerman 17. The rise of positional licensing Paul Kiparsky The papers by Kiparsky, Roberts and Weerman: an epilogue Hoskuldur Thrainsson References Index.