The papers in this volume aim at facilitating exchange between three fields of inquiry that are of great importance in historical linguistics: language change,

This collection of eleven essays traces the complex paths of change taken by the English language in its long history, from its Indo-European origins to the pre

This volume presents a careful selection of fifteen articles presented at the SPCL meetings in Atlanta, Boston and Hawai'i in 2003 and 2004. The contributions r

This collection reflects Minoji Akimoto's concern with studies of change in English that are theoretically-informed, but founded on substantial bodies of data.

Provides a unique angle, by linking insights from theoretical advances in generative syntax to phenomena from language variation and change.