Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Syntactic change from within and from without syntax: A usage-based analysis 13
5. On explaining the rise of c'est -clefts in French 31
6. The role of the plural system in Romance 57
7. Morphological developments affecting syntactic change 85
8. Grammaticalisation within the IP-domain 107
9. Imperfect systems and diachronic change 127
10. From temporal to modal: Divergent fates of the Latin synthetic pluperfect in Spanish and Portuguese 147
11. Non-lexical core-arguments in Basque, Romance and German: How (and why) Spanish syntax is shifting towards clausal headmarking and morphological cross-reference 181
12. Towards a comprehensive view of language change: Three recent evolutionary approaches 215
13. Subject Index 251