This volume offers a range of synchronic and diachronic case studies in comparative Germanic and Romance morphosyntax. These two language families, spoken by ov

This second edition of Ian Roberts's highly successful textbook on diachronic syntax has been fully revised and updated throughout to take account of the multip

One of the principal challenges of historical linguistics is to explain the "causes" of language change. Any such explanation, however, must also address the ac

This volume offers new perspectives on the tension between the rich patterns of language variation that emerge from comparative studies and the quest for simple

Die grammatische Kategorie eingebetteter Sätze zählt seit über 50 Jahren zu den zentralen Themen der theoretischen Syntax. Dabei dreht sich die Diskussion sp