Left Branch Extraction of nominal modifiers in Old Scandinavian

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1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Grammaticalization in a speaker-oriented theory of change 11
5. 'Degrammaticalization' versus typology: Reflections on a strained relationship 45
6. Cascading parameter changes: Internally-driven change in Middle and Early Modern English 79
7. The rise and development of analytic perfects in Italo-Romance 115
8. Raising patterns in Old High German 143
9. The new passive in Icelandic really is a passive 173
10. A mentalist interpretation of grammaticalization theory 221
11. Linguistic cycles and Economy Principle: The role of Universal Grammar in language change 245
12. Explaining exuberant agreement 265
13. From resultatives to anteriors in Ancient Greek: On the role of paradigmaticity in semantic change 285
14. Lexical nonsense and morphological sense: On the real importance of 'folk etymology' and related phenomena for historical linguists 307
15. The diffusion of systemic changes through the inflectional system: Evidence from person-number inflection in the Nordic languages and German 329
16. Left Branch Extraction of nominal modifiers in Old Scandinavian 357
17. On incorporation in Athapaskan languages: Aspects of language change 375
18. Argument marking from Latin to Modern Romance languages: An illustration of 'combined grammaticalisation processes' 411
19. Index 439