Table of contents
List of contributors
Chapter 1. Cyclical change, an introduction
Part I. Negatives
Chapter 2. Jespersen recycled
Chapter 3. The Jespersen cycles
Chapter 4. The negative cycle in Early and Modern Russian
Chapter 5. Jespersen off course? The case of contemporary Afrikaans negation
Part II. Pronouns, agreement, and topic markers
Chapter 6. Weak pronouns in Italian: Instances of a broken cycle?
Chapter 7. The subject cycle of pronominal auxiliaries in Old North Russian
Chapter 8. Two instances of a broken cycle: Sentential particles in Old Italian
Part III. Copulas, auxiliaries, and adpositions
Chapter 9. The Copula cycle
Chapter 10. RATHER – On a modal cycle
Chapter 11. Cycles of complementation in the Mayan languages
Chapter 12. The Preposition cycle in English
Part IV. An experiment
Chapter 13. The study of syntactic cycles as an experimental science
Author index
Subject index
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