This volume addresses syntactic change at the macro and the micro level, and explores how these different levels of change are related. It includes numerous case studies of changes in syntactic constructions including relative clauses, verb second, and negation, in a range of languages.

Eric Mathieu is Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa. He completed his PhD in 2002 at University College London. His research focuses on Modern and Old French, and on the Algonquian language Ojibwe. His work has been published in a number of journals including Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Lingua, Probus, and Linguistic Variation. He is also co-author of The Syntax and Semantics of Split Constructions (Palgrave, 2004) and co-editor of Variation within and across Romance Languages (Benjamins, 2011).
Robert Truswell is a Chancellor's Fellow in the school of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Science at the University of Edinburgh and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Ottawa. His research covers a range of topics associated with syntax-external influences on syntactic phenomena, and his previous OUP publications are Events, Phrases, and Questions (2011) and Syntax and its Limits (2013, with Raffaella Folli and Christina Sevdali). He is also the editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Event Structure.

• 1: Eric Mathieu and Robert Truswell: Micro-change and macro-change in diachronic syntax


• 2: Ailís Cournane: In defence of the child innovator


• 3: Nikolas Gisborne and Robert Truswell: Where do relative specifiers come from?


• 4: John Whitman and Yohei Ono: Diachronic interpretations of word order parameter cohesion


• 5: Katalin É. Kiss: The rise and fall of Hungarian complex tenses


• 6: Gertjan Postma: Modelling transient states in language change


• 7: Hezekiah Akiva Bacovcin: Modelling interactions between morphosyntactic changes


• 8: Michelle Troberg and Heather Burnett: From Latin to Modern French: A punctuated shift


• 9: Nikolaos Lavidas: Case in diachrony: Or, why Greek is not English


• 10: Marie Labelle and Paul Hirschbühler: Leftward Stylistic Displacement (LSD) in Medieval French


• 11: Christine Meklenborg Salvesen and George Walkden: Diagnosing embedded V2 in Old English and Old French


• 12: Caitlin Light: The pragmatics of demonstratives in Germanic


• 13: Aaron Ecay and Meredith Tamminga: Persistence as a diagnostic of grammatical status: The case of Middle English negation


• 14: Lieven Danckaert: The origins of the Romance analytic passive: Evidence from word order


• 15: Sarah G. Courtney: Reconciling syntactic and post-syntactic complementizer agreement


• 16: Lukasz Jedrzejowski: On the grammaticalization of temporal-aspectual heads: The case of German versprechen 'promise'