Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Chapter 1. The determinants of diachronic stability 1
4. Chapter 2. Gender stability, gender loss 11
5. Chapter 3. Apparent competing agreement patterns in Middle Low German non-restrictive relative clauses with a first or second person head 39
6. Chapter 4. Stability and change in Icelandic weather verbs 69
7. Chapter 5. Disharmony in harmony with diachronic stability 101
8. Chapter 6. Against V2 in Old Spanish 131
9. Chapter 7. V1 clauses in Old Catalan 157
10. Chapter 8. Competition, stability and change in the emergence of Brazilian Portuguese 191
11. Chapter 9. What is a diachronically stable system in a language-contact situation? 215
12. Chapter 10. A variational theory of specialization in acquisition and diachrony 245
13. Chapter 11. Stable variation in multidimensional competition 263
14. Index 291