This volume explores multiple aspects of cyclical syntactic change, including the diachrony of negation, the internal structure of wh-words, and changes in argument structure. It combines descriptions of novel data with detailed theoretical analysis, and will appeal to historical linguists and to anyone working on language variation and change.

• 1: Anne Breitbarth, Lieven Danckaert, Elisabeth Witzenhausen, and Miriam Bouzouita: Cycling through diachrony


• 2: Elly van Gelderen: Cyclical change and problems of projection


• 3: Eric Fuß: When morphological and syntactic change are not in sync: Reassessing diachronic implications of the Rich Agreement Hypothesis


• 4: Susann Fischer, Mario Navarro, and Jorge Vega Vilanova: The clitic doubling parameter: Development and distribution of a cyclic change


• 5: Jacopo Garzonio and Silvia Rossi: Weak elements in cycles: A case study on dative pronouns in Old Italo-Romance


• 6: Judy Bernstein, Francisco Ordóñez, and Francesc Roca: On the emergence of personal articles in the history of Catalan


• 7: Kari Kinn: Bare singular nouns in Middle Norwegian


• 8: Andreas Blümel and Marco Coniglio: What kind of constructions yield what kind of constructions?


• 9: Moreno Mitrovic: Quantificational cycles and shifts


• 10: Cecilia Poletto and Emanuela Sanfelici: On the relative cycle: The case of P+che relative clauses from Old to Modern Italian


• 11: Karen De Clercq: French negation, the Superset Principle, and Feature Conservation


• 12: Elitzur A. Bar-Asher Siegal and Karen De Clercq: From negative cleft to external negator


• 13: Montserrat Batllori, Elisabeth Gibert-Sotelo, and Isabel Pujol: Changes in the argument and event structure of psych verbs in the history of Spanish


• References


• Index

Miriam Bouzouita is Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at Ghent University, where she is coordinator of the Diachronic and Diatopic Linguistics (DiaLing) research group. She also leads research projects on grammatical variation in spatial adverbial constructions in Spanish dialects, and on the morphosyntactic annotation and parsing of the COSER corpus. Her interests include Ibero-Romance historical linguistics and dialectology, and she has published on the grammaticalization of clitics, the future, and the left periphery.
Anne Breitbarth is Associate Professor of Historical German Linguistics at Ghent University. She has published on issues in historical syntax and language change in High and Low German, as well as Dutch and English, and has led projects building parsed corpora for historical Low German and Southern Dutch dialects. She is the author of The History of Low German Negation (OUP, 2014) and editor of several volumes on language change in the domains of negation and polarity, as well as diachronic change and stability in grammar.
Lieven Danckaert currently works as a CNRS researcher at the University of Lille. He was previously employed at Ghent University, where he obtained his PhD in 2011. His expertise is in generative grammar and Latin syntax, with special emphasis on the study of word order and the use of quantitative, corpus-based methods. He is the author of two monographs: Latin Embedded Clauses: The Left Periphery (Benjamins, 2012) and The Development of Latin Clause Structure: A Study of the Extended Verb Phrase (OUP, 2017).
Elisabeth Witzenhausen is a PhD student in historical linguistics at Ghent University, working on the functional change of the preverbal negative marker in Continental West Germanic languages within a generative framework. She uses both quantitative and corpus-based methods and is interested in the syntax-semantics interface, clause linking, and modality, as well as onomastics.