This volume explores word order change within the framework of diachronic generative syntax and offers new insights into word order, syntactic movement, and rel

The case studies in this volume offer new insights into word order change. As is now becoming increasingly clear, word order variation rarely attracts social va

followed by the loss of morphology. --Book Jacket.

While Modern Icelandic exhibits a virtually uniform VO order in the VP, Old(er) Icelandic had both VO order and OV order, as well as ‘mixed’ word order patt

The goal of this pioneering work is to make available to Chinese linguists, as well as linguists in general, the results of the most recent research - not only