Elly van Gelderen provides examples of linguistic cycles from a number of languages and
language families, along with an account of the linguistic cycle in terms of minimalist …

Certain recently-attested varieties of Germanic V2 languages are known to deviate from the
strict V2 requirement characteristic of the standard. This is the case, for example, for …

This paper examines cyclical changes involving complementisers, for instance, whether in
the history of English. Whether starts out as a pronoun and after frequent topicalisation is …

The topic of this paper is the" multi-functionality" of lexical items and--based on that--a more
flexible treatment of the structure building component of syntax. The empirical basis is data …

This book examines the diachronic development of negation in Low German, from Old
Saxon up to the point at which Middle Low German is replaced by High German as the …

Grammaticalization and “pragmaticalization” are standardly viewed as unidirectional
changes that break down into a set of aligned changes occurring in all the usually …

of Germanic and Slavic Languages Page 1 Krzysztof Migdalski Second Position Effects in the
Syntax of Germanic and Slavic Languages Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrodawskiego 2016 …

This paper offers a Distributed Morphology analysis of verbal theme vowels and primary
verbal stem-forming morphology in Ancient Greek (AG). While verbal stem-forming …

This dissertation attempts to unify two reductionist hypotheses: that there is no relational
difference between specifiers and complements, and that verbs do not have thematic …

This article presents and discusses evidence that genitive and dative objects regularly
become nominative in Ancient Greek passives of monotransitives and ditransitives. This is a …