Historical syntax : [papers presented for the International Conference on Historical Syntax held at Błażejewko, Poland, 31 March-3 April 1981

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing. Preface 5 List of conference participants. 11 Internal reconstruction in pre-Japanese syntax 13 Notes on syntactic change: Cooccurrence vs. substitution stability vs. permeability 37 Translation and syntactic change 59 Relativizers in Early Modern English: A dynamic quantitative study 73 Irish complementation: A case study in two types of syntactic change 101 Divergent word orderdevelopments in Germanic languages: A description and a tentative explanation 119 Relatively attributive: The 'ezafe'-construction from Old Iranian to Modern Persian 149 The reconstruction of particles and syntax 185 On the strengths and weaknesses of a typological approach to historical syntax 195 A valency framework for the Old English verb 211 The distribution of the denominative adjective and the adnominal genitive in Old Church Slavonic 229 If I was instead of if I were 249 Comment on W. Manczak's paper 259 Exbraciation in the Kru language family 261 The origin of Old English conjunctions: Some problems. 283 Levels of linguistic structure and the rate of change. 313 Auxiliaries and auxiliarization in Western Muskogean 345 Explorations into syntactic obsoleteness: English a-X-ing and X-ing 375 Syntactic restructuring in the history of English 395 "Es war ein König in Thule ( ), Dem sterbend seine Buhle : On the rise and transformation(s) of morphosyntactic categories 405 The choice of relative pronouns in 17th century American English. 429 Towards a typology of relative clause formation strategies in Germanic 449 Reconstructing word order in a polysynthetic language: From SOV to SVO in Iroquoian 483 The study of eighteenth century English syntax 521 'Subjectless' constructions and syntactic change 533 Semantic and pragmatic factors in syntactic change 567 On the history of the verb-second rule in English 587 Typology, universals and change of language 605 Reconstructing comparative linguistics and the reconstruction of the syntax of undocumented stages in the development of languages and language families 625 Verb-second, verb late, and the brace construction in Germanic: A discussion 639 TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks, as well as studies that provide new insights by approaching language from an interdisciplinary perspective. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science.

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language.

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.