1. Syntactic Change: Theory and Method, Susan Pintzuk, George Tsoulas, and Anthony Warner Part I: Frameworks for the Understanding of Change 2. Competition and Correspondence in Syntactic Change: Null Arguments in Latin and Romance, Nigel Vincent 3. Jespersen's Cycle Revisited: Formal Properties of Grammaticalization, Ans van Kemenade 4. Evolutionary Perspectives on Diachronic Syntax, Ted Briscoe Part II: The Comparative Basis of Diachronic Syntax 5. Adjuncts and the Syntax of Subjects in Old and Middle English, Eric Haeberli 6. Verb-Object Order in Early Middle English, Anthony Kroch and Ann Taylor 7. Null Subjects in Middle English Existentials, Alexander Williams Part III: Mechanisms of Syntactic Change 8. Polarity Items in Romance: Underspecification and Lexical Change, Ana Maria Martins 9. Relabelling, John Whitman 10. The Value of Definite Determiners from Old Spanish to Modern Spanish, Montse Batllori and Francesc Roca 11. From OV to VO in Swedish, Lars-Olof Delsing 12. The Evolution of Do-Support in English Imperatives, Chung-hye Han 13. Interacting Movements in the History of Icelandic, Thorbjorg Hroarsdottir 14. Verb Movement in Slavonic Conditionals, David Willis

Susan Pintzuk and George Tsoulas and Anthony Warner

`Review from hardback edition ... provides an excellent survey of recent developments in the field ... The editors have assembled a collection of very substantial papers in which extensive databases, sophisticated statistical analyses, and clever theoretical interpretations are abundantly present.' Journal of Linguistics |d 16/09/2004