Grammatical Change

1: John Whitman, Dianne Jonas, and Andrew Garrett: Introduction Part 1: Grammaticalization and Directionality of Change 2: Paul Kiparsky: Grammaticalization as Optimization 3: Andrew Garrett: The Historical Syntax Problem: Reanalysis and Directionality 4: Montse Batllori and Francesc Roca: Grammaticalization of ser and estar in Romance 5: David Willis: A Minimalist Approach to Jespersen's Cycle in Welsh Part 2: Change in the Nominal Domain: Internal and External Factors 6: Uffe Bergeton and Roumyana Pancheva: A New Perspective on the Historical Development of English Intensifiers and Reflexives 7: Gertjan Postma: Language Contact and Linguistic Complexity - The Rise of the Reflexive Pronoun zich in a 15th Century netherlands' Border Dialect 8: Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova and Valentin Vulchanov: An Article Evolving: The Case of Old Bulgarian 9: Christina Guardiano: Parametric Changes in the History of the Greek Article 10: Paola Chrisma: Triggering Syntactic Change: Inertia and Local Causes in the History of English Genitives Part 3: Change in the Clausal Domain: Cues, Triggers, and Articulation 11: Eric Haeberli and Susan Pintzuk: Revisting Verb (Projection) Raising in Old English 12: Ans van Kemenade and Tanja Milicev: Syntax and Discourse in Old English and Middle Word Order 13: Brady Clark: Subjects in Early English: Syntactic Change as Gradual Constraint Reranking 14: Ana Maria Martins: Coordination, Gapping, and the Portuguese Inflected Infinitive: The Role of Structural Ambiguity in Syntactic Change 15: John Sundquist: Neg Movement in the History of Norwegian: The Evolution of a Grammatical Virus Part 4: Morphosyntactic Change and Language Type 16: Jason Haugen: On the Gradual Development of Polysynthesis in Nahuatl 17: Edith Aldridge: Antipassive in Austronesian Alignment Changeg References Acknowledgements Index