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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Case & argument structure: Strategies for aligning syntactic roles and case marking with semantic properties: The case of the accusative of respect in ancient Greek / Domenica Romagno -- Criteria for subjecthood and non-canonical subjects in Classical Greek / Marina Benedetti and Chiara Gianollo -- Parallel syncretism in early Indo-European / Steve Rapaport -- Dative possessor in ditransitive Spanish predication, in diachronic perspective / Rosa María Ortiz Ciscomani -- 'Liking' constructions in Spanish:The role of frequency and syntactic stimulus in constructional change / Andrea Mojedano Batel -- Part II. Alignment & Diathesis: The actualization of new voice patterns in Romance: Persistence in diversity / Michela Cennamo -- Ergative from passive in Proto-Basque / Mikel Martínez-Areta -- Part III. Patterns, paradigms, & restructuring: Synchrony, diachrony, and indexicality / Henning Andersen -- Ablaut pattern extension as partial regularization strategy in German and Luxembourgish / Jessica Nowak -- Remotivating inflectional classes: An unexpected effect of grammaticalization / Livio Gaeta -- From noun to quantifier: Pseudo-partitives and language change / Johanna L. Wood -- Part IV. Grammaticalization & construction grammar: Old French si, grammaticalisation, and the interconnectedness of change / Sam Wolfe -- The rise of the analytic Perfect aspect in the West Iranian languages / Vit Bubenik and Leila Ziamajidi -- On the grammaticalization of the -(v)ši- resultative in North Slavic / Andrii Danylenko -- Atomizing linguistic change: A radical view / Dieter Stein -- Part V. Corpus linguistics & morphosyntax: The rich get richer: Preferential attachment and the diachrony of light verbs in Old Swedish / John D. Sundquist -- Expletives in Icelandic: A corpus study / Hannah Booth -- Part VI. Languages in contact: Contact and change in Neo-Aramaic dialects / Geoffrey Khan -- Copying of argument structure: A gap in borrowing scales and a new approach to model contact-induced change / Carola Trips -- Contact-induced change and the phonemicization of the vowel /a/ in Quảng Nam Vietnamese / Andrea Hoa Pham -- The future marker in Palestinian Arabic: Internal or external motivation for language change? / Duaa AbuAmsha -- Neuters to none: A diachronic perspective on loanword gender in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian / Mary Ann Walter -- Index.

"The collected articles in this volume address an array of cutting-edge issues in the field of historical linguistics, including new theoretical approaches and innovative methodologies for studying language through a diachronic lens. The articles focus on the following themes: I. Case & Argument Structure, II. Alignment & Diathesis, III. Patterns, Paradigms, & Restructuring, IV. Grammaticalization & Construction Grammar, V. Corpus Linguistics & Morphosyntax, VI. Languages in Contact. Papers reflect a wide range of perspectives, and focus on issues and data from an array of languages and language families, from new analyses of case and argument structure in Ancient Greek to phonological evidence for language contact in Vietnamese, from patterns of convergence in Neo-Aramaic to the development of the ergative in Basque. The volume contributes substantially to the debate surrounding core issues of language change: the role of the individual speaker, the nature of paths of grammaticalization, the role of contact, the interface of diachrony and synchrony, and many other issues. It should be useful to any reader hoping to gain insight into the nature of language change"-- Provided by publisher.

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