Parameters of Morphosyntactic Change Book

	List of contributors
	Preface
	Parameters and morphosyntactic change	1
Pt. 1	Aspect, argument structure and case selection	27
1	The interdependence of case, aspect and referentiality in the history of German: the case of the verbal genitive	29
2	The rise of the article in the Germanic languages	62
3	The diachronic development of a modal verb of necessity	94
4	Auxiliary verbs in Old and Middle French: a diachronic study of substitutive faire and a comparison with the Modern English auxiliaries	119
5	Commentary on part 1: aspect, argument structure and case selection	134
Pt. 2	Clitics	147
6	The emergence of the D-system in Romance	149
7	On two locations for complement clitic pronouns: Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian and Old Spanish	170
8	On the integration of second position phenomena	207
Pt. 3	Verb second and comp	251
9	Shifting triggers and diachronic reanalyses	253
10	Viewing change in progress: the loss of V2 in Hiberno-English imperatives	273
11	Verb movement in Old and Middle English: dialect variation and language contact	297
12	V2 and embedded topicalization in Old and Middle English	326
13	Qu'est-ce que ce que? The diachronic evolution of a French complementizer	353
14	The structure of parametric change, and V-movement in the history of English	380
Pt. 4	Scrambling and morphological case	395
15	Directionality and word order change in the history of English	397
16	On the relation between morphological and syntactic case	427
17	The rise of positional licensing	460
18	The chapters by Kiparsky, Roberts and Weerman: an epilogue	495
	References	509
	Index	539