Historical Syntax
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Historical Syntax

  1. 648 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
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Historical Syntax

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Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. List of conference participants.
  3. Internal reconstruction in pre-Japanese syntax
  4. Notes on syntactic change: Cooccurrence vs. substitution stability vs. permeability
  5. Translation and syntactic change
  6. Relativizers in Early Modern English: A dynamic quantitative study
  7. Irish complementation: A case study in two types of syntactic change
  8. Divergent word orderdevelopments in Germanic languages: A description and a tentative explanation
  9. Relatively attributive: The 'ezafe'-construction from Old Iranian to Modern Persian
  10. The reconstruction of particles and syntax
  11. On the strengths and weaknesses of a typological approach to historical syntax
  12. A valency framework for the Old English verb
  13. The distribution of the denominative adjective and the adnominal genitive in Old Church Slavonic
  14. If I was instead of if I were
  15. Comment on W. Manczak's paper
  16. Exbraciation in the Kru language family
  17. The origin of Old English conjunctions: Some problems.
  18. Levels of linguistic structure and the rate of change.
  19. Auxiliaries and auxiliarization in Western Muskogean
  20. Explorations into syntactic obsoleteness: English a-X-ing and X-ing
  21. Syntactic restructuring in the history of English
  22. "Es war ein König in Thule ( ), Dem sterbend seine Buhle : On the rise and transformation(s) of morphosyntactic categories
  23. The choice of relative pronouns in 17th century American English.
  24. Towards a typology of relative clause formation strategies in Germanic
  25. Reconstructing word order in a polysynthetic language: From SOV to SVO in Iroquoian
  26. The study of eighteenth century English syntax
  27. 'Subjectless' constructions and syntactic change
  28. Semantic and pragmatic factors in syntactic change
  29. On the history of the verb-second rule in English
  30. Typology, universals and change of language
  31. Reconstructing comparative linguistics and the reconstruction of the syntax of undocumented stages in the development of languages and language families
  32. Verb-second, verb late, and the brace construction in Germanic: A discussion