Table of Contents

1. Acknowledgements; 2. Introduction; 3. Part I. Stylistic and Pragmatic Principles in Stability, Variation and Change; 4. La formation des principes de l'ordre des mots du russe moderne en tant que probleme de stylistique litteraire et de linguistique (by Benoist, Jean-Pierre); 5. From VSO to SVO? Word Order and Rear Extraposition in Coptic (by Loprieno, Antonio); 6. Constitutent Order in Middle Welsh: The Stability of the Pragmatic Principle (by Poppe, Erich); 7. Part II. Stability and Diachrony; 8. Stability Against the Odds? The Survival of Verb Final Order in Akkadian (by Deutscher, Guy); 9. Stability in Clausal/Phrasal Pattern Constituent Sequencing: 4000 Year of Egyptian (with some theoretical reflections, also on Celtic) (by Shisha-Halevy, Ariel); 10. Stability, Variation and Change in Word Order: Some Evidence from the Romance Languages (by Sornicola, Rosanna); 11. Part III. Reanalysis, Grammaticalization and Change; 12. Reanalysis in Word Order Stability and Change (by Faarlund, Jan Terje); 13. Word Order Harmonies and Word Order Change in Georgian (by Harris, Alice C.); 14. Word Order and the First Person Imperative (by Justus, Carol F.); 15. Part IV. Variation and Change; 16. Variant Order of Surface Segmentables on the Border between Morphology and Syntax: The Case of Preradical Verbal Morphology in Kartvelian (by Cherchi, Marcello); 17. Word Order Stability and Change from a Sociolinguistic Perspective: The Case of Early Modern Welsh (by Currie, Oliver); 18. Convergence and Divergence in the Development of the Greek and Latin Clitic Pronouns (by Janse, Mark); 19. Two Word Order Patterns in the History of English: Stability, Variation, and Change (by Koopman, Willem F.); 20. Genitive Constructions in Early Modern English. New Evidence from a Corpus Analysis (by Rosenbach, Anette); 21. Index of names; 22. Index of subjects; 23. Index of languages