Clause Structure and Language Change

Contents......Page 8
1. Introduction......Page 14
PART ONE: The Diachrony of Verb Second......Page 40
2. \"Why UG Needs a Learning Theory: Triggering Verb Movement\"......Page 42
3. \"Two Types of Verb Second in the History of Yiddish\"......Page 64
4. \"The Locus of Verb Movement in Non-Asymmetric Verb-Second Languages: The Case of Middle French\"......Page 91
5. \"Evidence for a Verb-Second Phase in Old Portuguese\"......Page 121
6. \"Indo-European Origins of Germanic Syntax\"......Page 151
PART TWO: Verb Second and the Null-Subject Parameter......Page 182
7. \"On the Decline of Verb Movement to Comp in Old and Middle French\"......Page 184
8. \"The Loss of Verb Second in English and French\"......Page 211
9. \"Verb Second, Pro-drop, Functional Projections and Language Change\"......Page 238
10. \"Null Subjects in Verb-First Embedded Clauses in Philippe de Vigneulles\' Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles\"......Page 268
PART THREE: Clitics and Verb Second......Page 304
11. \"The Diachronic Development of Subject Clitics in North Eastern Italian Dialects\"......Page 306
12. \"Complement Clitics in Medieval Romance: the Tobler-Mussafia Law\"......Page 336
13. \"Cases of Verb Third in Old High German\"......Page 356