Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The history of historical syntax: major themes
- 3 Overview of a theory of syntactic change
- 4 Reanalysis
- 5 Extension
- 6 Language contact and syntactic borrowing
- 7 Processes that simplify biclausal structures
- 8 Word order
- 9 Alignment
- 10 On the development of complex constructions
- 11 The nature of syntactic change and the issue of causation
- 12 Reconstruction of syntax
- Appendix
- Notes
- References
- Index of languages and language families
- Index of scholars
- Index of subjects
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The history of historical syntax: major themes
- 3 Overview of a theory of syntactic change
- 4 Reanalysis
- 5 Extension
- 6 Language contact and syntactic borrowing
- 7 Processes that simplify biclausal structures
- 8 Word order
- 9 Alignment
- 10 On the development of complex constructions
- 11 The nature of syntactic change and the issue of causation
- 12 Reconstruction of syntax
- Appendix
- Notes
- References
- Index of languages and language families
- Index of scholars
- Index of subjects
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- Historical Syntax in Cross-Linguistic Perspective , pp. i - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995