Grammatical Change

This book advances research on grammatical change and shows the breadth and liveliness of the field. Leading international scholars report and reflect on the latest research into the nature and outcomes of all aspects of syntactic change including grammaticalization variation complementation syntactic movement determiner-phrase syntax pronominal systems case systems negation and alignment. The authors deploy a variety of generative frameworks including minimalist and optimality theoretic and bring these to bear on a wide range of languages: among the latter are typologically distinct examples from Germanic Romance Slavic Greek Korean and Japanese Austronesian Celtic and Nahuatl. They draw on sociolinguistic evidence where appropriate. Taken as a whole the volume provides a stimulating overview of key current issues in the investigation of the origins nature and outcome of syntactic change.