Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction
4. Historical syntax 3
5. Syntactic change
6. Manner deixis as source of grammatical markers in Indo-European languages 35
7. Time for change 61
8. Syntactic reconstruction
9. Reconstructing non-canonical argument structure for Proto-Indo-European 95
10. An approach to syntactic reconstruction 117
11. Anatolian morphosyntax 155
12. Historical syntax and corpus linguistics
13. Treebanks in historical linguistic research 187
14. Traces of discourse configurationality in older Indo-European languages? 203
15. Studying word order changes in Latin 233
16. Problematizing syndetic coordination 251
17. What role for inscriptions in the study of syntax and syntactic change in the old Indo-European languages? 271
18. Historical syntax and language contact
19. The Gulf of Guinea creoles 293
20. Syntactic diversity and change in Austroasiatic languages 317
21. Register of Subjects 341
22. Register of Languages 345