Reanalysis in Word Order Stability and Change

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction ix
5. Part I. Stylistic and Pragmatic Principles in Stability, Variation and Change
6. La formation des principes de l’ordre des mots du russe moderne en tant que problème de stylistique littéraire et de linguistique 3
7. From VSO to SVO? Word Order and Rear Extraposition in Coptic 23
8. Constitutent Order in Middle Welsh: The Stability of the Pragmatic Principle 41
9. Part II. Stability and Diachrony
10. Stability Against the Odds? The Survival of Verb Final Order in Akkadian 55
11. Stability in Clausal/Phrasal Pattern Constituent Sequencing: 4000 Year of Egyptian (with some theoretical reflections, also on Celtic) 71
12. Stability, Variation and Change in Word Order: Some Evidence from the Romance Languages 101
13. Part III. Reanalysis, Grammaticalization and Change
14. Reanalysis in Word Order Stability and Change 119
15. Word Order Harmonies and Word Order Change in Georgian 133
16. Word Order and the First Person Imperative 165
17. Part IV. Variation and Change
18. Variant Order of Surface Segmentables on the Border between Morphology and Syntax: The Case of Preradical Verbal Morphology in Kartvelian 187
19. Word Order Stability and Change from a Sociolinguistic Perspective: The Case of Early Modern Welsh 203
20. Convergence and Divergence in the Development of the Greek and Latin Clitic Pronouns 231
21. Two Word Order Patterns in the History of English: Stability, Variation, and Change 259
22. Genitive Constructions in Early Modern English. New Evidence from a Corpus Analysis 285
23. Index of names 309
24. Index of subjects 315
25. Index of languages 321