Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Acknowledgements xi
4. List of abbreviations and symbols xiii
5. List of tables xvii
6. List of figures xix
7. Introduction 1
8. Part One. Past participle agreement in Romance languages
9. Chapter 1. General remarks on past participle agreement 13
10. Chapter 2. Optionality and language change 39
11. Chapter 3. Past participle agreement in Catalan 67
12. Chapter 4. Standpoint and research outlines 85
13. Part Two. Theoretical background
14. Chapter 5. On clausal structure and universal grammar 91
15. Chapter 6. On grammaticalization and language change 103
16. Chapter 7. Subject-verb agreement revisited 117
17. Part Three. Past participle agreement in Catalan
18. Chapter 8. Data collection 131
19. Chapter 9. The PPA cycle 149
20. Chapter 10. Diachronic analysis of past participle agreement in Catalan 179
21. Concluding remarks 201
22. References 207
23. Appendix I. List of texts used in the Old Catalan corpus 225
24. Appendix II. Acceptability judgment task for Modern Catalan 227
25. Index 233