Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword & Acknowledgements ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Case & argument structure
6. Strategies for aligning syntactic roles and case marking with semantic properties 9
7. Criteria for subjecthood and non-canonical subjects in Classical Greek 29
8. Parallel syncretism in early Indo-European 49
9. Dative possessor in ditransitive Spanish predication, in diachronic perspective 65
10. ‘Liking’ constructions in Spanish 81
11. Part II. Alignment & Diathesis
12. The actualization of new voice patterns in Romance 109
13. Ergative from passive in Proto-Basque 143
14. Part III. Patterns, paradigms, & restructuring
15. Synchrony, diachrony, and indexicality 163
16. Ablaut pattern extension as partial regularization strategy in German and Luxembourgish 183
17. Remotivating inflectional classes 205
18. From noun to quantifier 229
19. Part IV. Grammaticalization & construction grammar
20. Old French si , grammaticalisation, and the interconnectedness of change 253
21. The rise of the analytic Perfect aspect in the West Iranian languages 273
22. On the grammaticalization of the -(v)ši- resultative in North Slavic 293
23. Atomizing linguistic change 317
24. Part V. Corpus linguistics & morphosyntax
25. The rich get richer 343
26. Expletives in Icelandic 363
27. Part VI. Languages in contact
28. Contact and change in Neo-Aramaic dialects 387
29. Copying of argument structure 409
30. Contact-induced change and the phonemicization of the vowel /ɑ/ in Quảng Nam Vietnamese 431
31. The future markers in Palestinian Arabic: 453
32. Neuters to none 473
33. Index 489
34. Languages & language families 493