This volume brings together the latest diachronic research on syntactic features and their role in restricting syntactic change. The chapters address a central
This volume brings together the latest diachronic research on syntactic features and their role in restricting syntactic change. The chapters explore topics rel
Against the background of the past half century’s typological and generative work on comparative syntax, this volume brings together 16 papers considering wha
This book provides a critical investigation of syntactic change and the factors that influence it. Converging empirical and theoretical considerations have sugg
Historical linguistics, the oldest field in linguistics, has been traditionally dominated by phonological and etymological investigations. Only in the late twen