The grammaticalization of Spanish haber plus participle

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. General programme of the conference ix
5. The tendency towards right branching in the development and acquisition of Latin and French 1
6. Linguistics and its positivist handicap 19
7. Question words in 18th-century and 20th-century Sranan 31
8. The explanation of syntactic change 49
9. Traffic between the pragmatic and structural levels 71
10. Parameter resetting 87
11. Old French and constraints on consonant epenthesis 99
12. The definite article 111
13. Language change 135
14. Suppression of a word-order pattern in Westgermanic 153
15. Modularity in language change 175
16. Blood, tears, and murder 199
17. On leapfrogging in historical phonology 211
18. Greenberg’s American Indian classification 229
19. The grammaticalization of Spanish haber plus participle 243
20. Latin to Romance (again!) 265
21. Linguistic variants and language change 281
22. ‘Typological conservatism’ and framing constructions in German morphosyntax 295
23. On the evidence for bimoric vowels in Early English 315
24. Longterm evolution of the syntax of discourse and the Swahili person markers 325
25. Jewish historical linguistics 343
26. Gerunds and their objects in the Modern English period 363
27. Indices (prepared by Boudewijn Smid)
28. Index of names 377
29. Index of languages 385
30. Index of subject matter 389