The papers in this volume aim at facilitating exchange between three fields of inquiry that are of great importance in historical linguistics: language change,

This collection of eleven essays traces the complex paths of change taken by the English language in its long history, from its Indo-European origins to the pre

Gender in English changed dramatically from the elaborate system found in Old English to the very simple he/she/it-alternation in use from (late) Middle English

This volume presents a careful selection of fifteen articles presented at the SPCL meetings in Atlanta, Boston and Hawai'i in 2003 and 2004. The contributions r

In this pioneering study, a world-renowned generative syntactician explores the impact of phenomena known as 'third factors' on syntactic change. Generative syn