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The first textbook on generative diachronic syntax

Table of Contents

1: Comparative and Historical Syntax in the Principles and Parameters Approach
2: Types of Syntactic Change
3: Acquisition, Learnability, and Syntactic Change
4: The Dynamics of Syntactic Change
5: Contact, Creoles, and Change
Readings
Epilogue
Acronyms and Abbreviations
References

About the Author

Ian Roberts is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. He obtained his PhD at the University of Southern California in 1985. He has held chairs at the University of Wales, Bangor, and at the University of Stuttgart. His books include The Representation of Implicit and Dethematized Subjects (FORIS, 1987), Verbs and Diachronic Syntax (Kluwer, 1993), Comparative Syntax (Edward Arnold, 1996), Syntactic Change (CUP,
2003, with Anna Roussou), and Principles and Parameters in a VSO Language: A Case Study in Welsh (OUP, 2005).

Reviews

Diachronic syntax will serve as an incentive and inspiration for generative researchers of historical linguistics. Marion Elenbass, Journal of Linguistics