Preface

pp.：  1 – 5

Abbreviations

pp.：  5 – 9

Introduction

pp.：  9 – 11

1. Preliminaries

pp.：  11 – 15

1.1. The subject-matter of diachronic syntax

pp.：  15 – 15

1.2. The logic of syntactic change

pp.：  15 – 19

1.3. The North Germanic languages and dialects

pp.：  19 – 20

1.4. Theoretical framework

pp.：  20 – 23

1.5. The data

pp.：  23 – 26

2. Explanation and syntactic change

pp.：  26 – 41

2.2. The meaning of “explanation”

pp.：  41 – 44

2.1. The locus of linguistic change

pp.：  41 – 41

2.3. Explaining linguistic change

pp.：  44 – 47

2.4. Motivation and predictability

pp.：  47 – 51

2.5. Formal and functional explanations – a summary

pp.：  51 – 54

3. Functional change

pp.：  54 – 57

3.1. Synchronic variation and diachronic change

pp.：  57 – 57

3.2. Word order typology

pp.：  57 – 60

3.3. The verb-second constraint

pp.：  60 – 69

3.4. The expletive topic

pp.：  69 – 73

4. Formal change

pp.：  73 – 85

4.2. Grammatical function and semantic role

pp.：  85 – 88

4.1. Predicate and argument

pp.：  85 – 85

4.3. Configurationality

pp.：  88 – 92

4.4. Prototypicality

pp.：  92 – 120

5. Some consequences

pp.：  120 – 147

5.2. Passive

pp.：  147 – 177

5.1. Case systems

pp.：  147 – 147

5.3. “Impersonal” constructions

pp.：  177 – 187

5.4. From preposition to verbal particle

pp.：  187 – 195

5.5. The expletive subject

pp.：  195 – 199

Notes

pp.：  199 – 205

References

pp.：  205 – 213

Index

pp.：  213 – 225

LastPages

pp.：  225 – 233