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- Title Pages
- Notes on Contributors
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1 Introduction -
2 Grammaticalization as optimization -
3 The historical syntax problem:reanalysis and directionality -
4 Grammaticalization of ser and estar in Romance -
5 A minimalist approach to Jespersen’s Cycle in Welsh -
6 A new perspective on the historical development of English intensifiers and reflexives -
7 Language contact and linguistic complexity—the rise of the reflexive pronoun zich in a fifteenth-century Netherlands border dialect -
8 An article evolving: the case of Old Bulgarian -
9 Parametric changes in the history of the Greek article -
10 Triggering syntactic change: Inertia and local causes in the history of English genitives -
11 Revisiting Verb (Projection)Raising in Old English -
12 Syntax and discourse in Old and Middle English word order -
13 Subjects in early English: syntactic change as gradual constraint reranking -
14 Coordination, gapping, and the Portuguese inflected infinitive: the role of structural ambiguity in syntactic change -
15 Negative movement in the history of Norwegian: the evolution of a grammatical virus -
16 On the gradual development of polysynthesis in Nahuatl -
17 Antipassive in Austronesian alignment change - References
- Acknowledgements
- Index
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- Title Pages
- Notes on Contributors
-
1 Introduction -
2 Grammaticalization as optimization -
3 The historical syntax problem:reanalysis and directionality -
4 Grammaticalization of ser and estar in Romance -
5 A minimalist approach to Jespersen’s Cycle in Welsh -
6 A new perspective on the historical development of English intensifiers and reflexives -
7 Language contact and linguistic complexity—the rise of the reflexive pronoun zich in a fifteenth-century Netherlands border dialect -
8 An article evolving: the case of Old Bulgarian -
9 Parametric changes in the history of the Greek article -
10 Triggering syntactic change: Inertia and local causes in the history of English genitives -
11 Revisiting Verb (Projection)Raising in Old English -
12 Syntax and discourse in Old and Middle English word order -
13 Subjects in early English: syntactic change as gradual constraint reranking -
14 Coordination, gapping, and the Portuguese inflected infinitive: the role of structural ambiguity in syntactic change -
15 Negative movement in the history of Norwegian: the evolution of a grammatical virus -
16 On the gradual development of polysynthesis in Nahuatl -
17 Antipassive in Austronesian alignment change - References
- Acknowledgements
- Index
