Contents

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I: The noun phrase
5. Some observations on the usage of adnominal genitives and datives in Middle Bulgarian Church Slavonic 13
6. Quantifying syntactic influence: Word order, possession and definiteness in Old Church Slavonic and Greek 29
7. The decay of cases in Molise Slavonic 63
8. Part II: The verbal phrase and related topics
9. Null subjects and person in Old North Russian 95
10. On the permeability of grammars: Syntactic pattern replications in heritage Croatian and heritage Serbian spoken in Germany 125
11. Possessive resultative constructions in Old and Middle Polish 161
12. Mechanisms of word order change in 12^th and 13^th century Serbian 187
13. Historical development and contemporary usage of discourse structuring elements based on verba dicendi in Croatian 209
14. Part III: The complex sentence
15. The status and origin of the accusativus cum infinitivo construction in Old Church Slavonic 261
16. On triangulation in the domain of clause linkage and propositional marking 285
17. The development of perception verb complements in the Serbian language 339
18. A tale of two pathways: On the development of relative clause chaining in East Slavonic 361
19. Relativisation strategies in Slovene: Diachrony between language use and language description 387
20. Index 407