Subject index

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of contributors vii
4. Chapter 1. Cyclical change, an introduction 1
5. Part I. Negatives
6. Chapter 2. Jespersen recycled 15
7. Chapter 3. The Jespersen cycles 35
8. Chapter 4. The negative cycle in Early and Modern Russian 73
9. Chapter 5. Jespersen off course? The case of contemporary Afrikaans negation 91
10. Part II. Pronouns, agreement, and topic markers
11. Chapter 6. Weak pronouns in Italian: Instances of a broken cycle? 133
12. Chapter 7. The subject cycle of pronominal auxiliaries in Old North Russian 157
13. Chapter 8. Two instances of a broken cycle: Sentential particles in Old Italian 185
14. Part III. Copulas, auxiliaries, and adpositions
15. Chapter 9. The Copula cycle 209
16. Chapter 10. RATHER – On a modal cycle 243
17. Chapter 11. Cycles of complementation in the Mayan languages 265
18. Chapter 12. The Preposition cycle in English 285
19. Part IV. An experiment
20. Chapter 13. The study of syntactic cycles as an experimental science 303
21. Author index 323
22. Subject index 327