This volume explores the role that functional elements play in syntactic change and investigates the semantic and functional features that are the driving force behind those changes. It contains both case studies of individual languages such as German, Hungarian, and Romanian, and detailed investigations of cross-linguistic phenomena.

Barbara Egedi is Senior Research Fellow at the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics. She has published several papers on the noun phrase structures of Old and Middle Hungarian as well as Ancient Egyptian and Coptic. Her major interests are changes in definiteness marking and possessive constructions, grammaticalization, and the comparative syntax of Uralic languages.
Veronika Hegedüs is Senior Research Fellow at the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics. She has worked on the structure and grammaticalization of adpositions and verbal particles in Hungarian, and on the syntactic properties of non-verbal primary and secondary predicates. Her main interests include the syntax of adpositions, grammaticalization, and word order change, as well as the structure of copular clauses.

• 1: Barbara Egedi and Veronika Hegedüs: The role of functional heads in syntactic change


• 2: Lieven Danckaert: Changing patterns of clausal complementation in Latin: A parametric approach to 'constructional' changes


• 3: Adina Dragomirescu and Virginia Hill: From split to remerged Fin in Romanian supine complements


• 4: Ana Maria Martins, Sandra Pereira, and Clara Pinto: The diachronic path of senão: From conditional subordination to exceptive coordination


• 5: Emanuela Sanfelici, Jacopo Garzonio, and Cecilia Poletto: On Italian relative complementizers and relative pronouns: Rethinking grammaticalization


• 6: Julia Bacskai-Atkari: Information structure, functional left peripheries, and the history of a Hungarian interrogative marker


• 7: Eric Haeberli and Tabea Ihsane: The recategorization of modals in English: Evidence from adverb placement


• 8: Ida Larsson and Ellen Brandner: Tense recursion, perfect doubling, and the grammaticalization of auxiliaries


• 9: Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson and Brynhildur Stefánsdóttir: P-incorporation in the history of Icelandic


• 10: Heimir F. Viðarsson: From Old to Modern Icelandic: Dative applicatives and NP/DP configurationality