Translation and syntactic change

Chapters in this book

1. I-XII I
2. Internal reconstruction in pre-Japanese syntax 1
3. Notes on syntactic change: Cooccurrence vs. substitution stability vs. permeability 25
4. Translation and syntactic change 47
5. Relativizers in Early Modern English: A dynamic quantitative study 61
6. Irish complementation: A case study in two types of syntactic change 89
7. Divergent word orderdevelopments in Germanic languages: A description and a tentative explanation 107
8. Relatively attributive: The 'ezafe'-construction from Old Iranian to Modern Persian 137
9. The reconstruction of particles and syntax 173
10. On the strengths and weaknesses of a typological approach to historical syntax 183
11. A valency framework for the Old English verb 199
12. The distribution of the denominative adjective and the adnominal genitive in Old Church Slavonic 217
13. If I was instead of if I were 237
14. Comment on W. Manczak's paper 247
15. Exbraciation in the Kru language family 249
16. The origin of Old English conjunctions: Some problems. 271
17. Levels of linguistic structure and the rate of change. 301
18. Auxiliaries and auxiliarization in Western Muskogean 333
19. Explorations into syntactic obsoleteness: English a-X-ing and X-ing 363
20. Syntactic restructuring in the history of English 383
21. "Es war ein König in Thule (), Dem sterbend seine Buhle: On the rise and transformation(s) of morphosyntactic categories 393
22. The choice of relative pronouns in 17th century American English. 417
23. Towards a typology of relative clause formation strategies in Germanic 437
24. Reconstructing word order in a polysynthetic language: From SOV to SVO in Iroquoian 471
25. The study of eighteenth century English syntax 509
26. 'Subjectless' constructions and syntactic change 521
27. Semantic and pragmatic factors in syntactic change 555
28. On the history of the verb-second rule in English 575
29. Typology, universals and change of language 593
30. Reconstructing comparative linguistics and the reconstruction of the syntax of undocumented stages in the development of languages and language families 613
31. Verb-second, verb late, and the brace construction in Germanic: A discussion 627