Stability, Variation and Change of Word-Order Patterns over Time

Abstract

1. Acknowledgements 2. Introduction 3. Part I. Stylistic and Pragmatic Principles in Stability, Variation and Change 4. La formation des principes de l'ordre des mots du russe moderne en tant que probleme de stylistique litteraire et de linguistique (by Benoist, Jean-Pierre) 5. From VSO to SVO? Word Order and Rear Extraposition in Coptic (by Loprieno, Antonio) 6. Constitutent Order in Middle Welsh: The Stability of the Pragmatic Principle (by Poppe, Erich) 7. Part II. Stability and Diachrony 8. Stability Against the Odds? The Survival of Verb Final Order in Akkadian (by Deutscher, Guy) 9. Stability in Clausal/Phrasal Pattern Constituent Sequencing: 4000 Year of Egyptian (with some theoretical reflections, also on Celtic) (by Shisha-Halevy, Ariel) 10. Stability, Variation and Change in Word Order: Some Evidence from the Romance Languages (by Sornicola, Rosanna) 11. Part III. Reanalysis, Grammaticalization and Change 12. Reanalysis in Word Order Stability and Change (by Faarlund, Jan Terje) 13. Word Order Harmonies and Word Order Change in Georgian (by Harris, Alice C.) 14. Word Order and the First Person Imperative (by Justus, Carol F.) 15. Part IV. Variation and Change 16. Variant Order of Surface Segmentables on the Border between Morphology and Syntax: The Case of Preradical Verbal Morphology in Kartvelian (by Cherchi, Marcello) 17. Word Order Stability and Change from a Sociolinguistic Perspective: The Case of Early Modern Welsh (by Currie, Oliver) 18. Convergence and Divergence in the Development of the Greek and Latin Clitic Pronouns (by Janse, Mark) 19. Two Word Order Patterns in the History of English: Stability, Variation, and Change (by Koopman, Willem F.) 20. Genitive Constructions in Early Modern English. New Evidence from a Corpus Analysis (by Rosenbach, Anette) 21. Index of names 22. Index of subjects 23. Index of languages