Perspectives on Historical Syntax

Abstract

1. Introduction 2. Historical syntax: Problems, materials, methods, hypotheses (by Viti, Carlotta) 3. Syntactic change 4. Manner deixis as source of grammatical markers in Indo-European languages (by Konig, Ekkehard) 5. Time for change (by Plank, Frans) 6. Syntactic reconstruction 7. Reconstructing non-canonical argument structure for Proto-Indo-European: Methodological questions and progress (by Smitherman, Thomas) 8. An approach to syntactic reconstruction (by Serzant, Ilja A.) 9. Anatolian morphosyntax: Inheritance and innovation (by Teffeteller, Annette) 10. Historical syntax and corpus linguistics 11. Treebanks in historical linguistic research (by Haug, Dag T.T.) 12. Traces of discourse configurationality in older Indo-European languages? (by Luhr, Rosemarie) 13. Studying word order changes in Latin: Some methodological remarks (by Danckaert, Lieven) 14. Problematizing syndetic coordination: Ancient Greek 'and' from Homer to Aristophanes (by Bonifazi, Anna) 15. What role for inscriptions in the study of syntax and syntactic change in the old Indo-European languages?: The pros and cons of an integration of epigraphic corpora (by Dell'Oro, Francesca) 16. Historical syntax and language contact 17. The Gulf of Guinea creoles: A case-study of syntactic reconstruction (by Hagemeijer, Tjerk) 18. Syntactic diversity and change in Austroasiatic languages (by Jenny, Mathias) 19. Register of Subjects 20. Register of Languages