Table of contents
Foreword and Acknowledgements
ix
Introduction
1
Part I.Case & argument structure
Strategies for aligning syntactic roles and case marking with semantic
properties: The case of the accusative of respect in Ancient Greek
9
Criteria for subjecthood and non-canonical subjects in Classical
Greek
29
Parallel syncretism in Early Indo-European
49
Dative possessor in ditransitive Spanish predication, in diachronic
perspective
65
‘Liking’ constructions in Spanish: The role of frequency and stimulus
category in constructional change
81
Part II.Alignment & diathesis
The actualization of 'new' voice patterns in Romance: Persistence in
diversity
107
Ergative from passive in Proto-Basque
143
Part III.Patterns, paradigms, & restructuring
Synchrony, diachrony and indexicality
163
Ablaut pattern extension as partial regularization strategy in German and
Luxembourgish
183
Remotivating inflectional classes: An unexpected effect of
grammaticalization
205
From Noun to Quantifier: Pseudo-partitives and language change
229
Part IV.Grammaticalization & construction grammar
Old French si, grammaticalisation, and the
interconnectedness of change
253
The rise of the analytic perfect aspect in the West Iranian
languages
273
On the grammaticalization of the -(v)ši- Resultative in
North Slavic
293
Atomising linguistic change: A radical view
317
Part V.Corpus linguistics & morphosyntax
The rich get richer: Preferential attachment & the diachrony of light
verbs in Old Swedish
341
Expletives in Icelandic: A corpus study
363
Part VI.Languages in contact
Contact and change in Neo-Aramaic dialects
387
Copying of argument structure: A gap in borrowing scales and a new
approach to model contact-induced change
409
Contact-induced change and the phonemicization of the vowel /ɑ/ in Quảng
Nam Vietnamese
431
The future markers in Palestinian Arabic: Internal or external motivation
for language change?
453
Neuters to none: A diachronic perspective on loanword gender in
Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian
473
Index of Subjects
489
Index of Languages & language families
493
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