The case studies in this volume offer new insights into word order change. As is now becoming increasingly clear, word order variation rarely attracts social va

This volume explores word order change within the framework of diachronic generative syntax and offers new insights into word order, syntactic movement, and rel

This volume focuses on different aspects of language development. The contributions are concerned with similarities and differences between first and second lan

This new volume on language contact and contact languages presents cutting-edge research by distinguished scholars in the field as well as by highly talented ne

This volume offers a wide-range of case studies on variation and change in the Gallo-Romance sub-family. It draws on a wealth of data from standard and non-stan