Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Scandinavian
5. On the syntax of the accusative/dative alternation in spatial PPs in Norwegian dative dialects 9
6. Spurious topic drop in Swedish 27
7. Germanic sociolinguistics
8. “The voice from below” 53
9. Gender maintenance and loss in Totenmålet, English, and other major Germanic varieties 77
10. French
11. Non-finite adjuncts in French 111
12. Topics and the left periphery 131
13. Language change
14. The developmental logic of the analytic past in German and Polish 175
15. The diachrony of pronouns and demonstratives 195
16. Lesser-studied languages
17. Origins of metathesis in Batsbi 221
18. Indefinitely definite expressions 239
19. Language acquisition
20. Doing diachrony 259
21. The acquisition of linguistic variation 275
22. Language evolution
23. The evolution of language 301
24. Language as technology 327
25. Index 359