Internal and External Factors in Syntactic Change

Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction: On "internal" and "external" in syntactic change /; Syntactic change and borrowing: The case of the accusative-and-infinitive construction in English /; External triggers and internal guidance in syntactic development: Coordinating conjunction /; Do and tun: A semantics and varieties based approach to syntactic change /; Sentence connection as an expression of medieval principles of representation /; Grammatical variation and divergence in Vernacular Black English /; Internal and external factors in syntactic change in an historical speech community /; Counterfactual may have /; Changes in subject marking in Japanese /; Relative clauses in Tok Pisin: Is there a natural pathway? /; The pairing of structure and function in syntactic development /; The history of subordinating conjunctions in some Romance languages /; Internal and external factors in the stabilization of verb-last order in Dutch infinitive clauses /; Word order change by grammaticalization /; On the role of prosodic features in syntactic change /; Discourse and diachrony: The rise and fall of Old French SI /; Subject index --; Backmatter / Gerritsen, Marinel / Stein, Dieter --; Fischer, Olga --; Mithun, Marianne --; Stein, Dieter --; Betten, Anne --; Rickford, John R. --; Ebert, Robert Peter --; Denison, David --; Fujii, Noriko --; Aitchison, Jean --; Ramat, Anna Giacalone --; Schlieben-Lange, Brigitte --; Gerritsen, Marinel --; Lehmann, Christian --; Minkova, Donka / Stockwell, Robert P. --; Fleischman, Suzanne --