The Rise of Agreement -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes for the reader and list of abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1.1. The grammaticalization of verbal agreement markers -- 1.2. Previous accounts -- 1.2.1. NP-detachment (Givón 1976) -- 1.2.2. Accessibility theory (Ariel 2000) -- 1.2.3. Reanalysis of focus shells (Simpson & Wu 2002) -- 1.2.4. Section summary -- 1.3. Outline of the Book -- Notes -- Theoretical preliminaries -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Minimalist syntax -- 2.3. Distributed Morphology -- 2.4. Language change: A generative perspective -- 2.5. Grammaticalization -- 2.6. Summary -- Notes -- The structural design of agreement -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. The phrase-structural representation of agreement -- 3.2.1. Conceptual arguments -- 3.2.2. Evidence from word order facts -- 3.2.3. The morphological realization of agreement -- 3.3. The structural relation involved in feature matching -- 3.4. Syntactic approaches to word formation -- 3.5. Interim summary: The design of agreement -- 3.6. Toward a realizational theory of agreement -- 3.6.1. The structural representation of agreement morphemes -- 3.6.2. Feature matching under closest c-command -- 3.6.3. Agreement and word formation -- 3.6.4. Section summary -- 3.7. Multiple agreement: Inflected complementizers in Germanic -- 3.7.1. Previous accounts of complementizer agreement -- 3.7.2. A Late Insertion account of complementizer agreement -- 3.8. Conclusion -- Notes -- The transition from pronoun to inflectional marker -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Telling apart clitics and agreement markers -- 4.2.1. Syntactic criteria -- 4.2.2. Morphological criteria -- 4.3. Syntactic preconditions for the rise of agreement -- 4.4. Paths toward agreement I: Infl-oriented clitics -- 4.5. Paths toward agreement II: C-oriented clitics.

4.6. Summary -- Notes -- The reanalysis of C-oriented clitics -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Bavarian -- 5.2.1. The diachronic development of Agr-on-C in Bavarian -- 5.2.2. Clitics, V2, and the rise of agreement -- 5.2.3. Developments in other German varieties -- 5.2.4. Section summary -- 5.3. Rhaeto-Romance -- 5.3.1. A grammatical sketch of the Swiss Rhaeto-Romance dialects -- 5.3.2. Earlier grammaticalization processes affecting enclitic pronouns -- 5.3.3. Clitic doubling and the rise of agreement -- 5.3.4. The reanalysis of emphatic doubling structures -- 5.3.5. Section summary -- 5.4. Reanalysis of C-oriented clitics in non-V2 languages -- 5.4.1. Uto-Aztecan -- 5.4.2. Mongolian -- 5.5. Conclusion -- Notes -- Morphological blocking and the rise of agreement -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. The Blocking Principle -- 6.2.1. The rise of new verbal agreement endings in Bavarian -- 6.2.2. Morphological blocking versus analogical leveling -- 6.2.3. On the status of morphological doublets -- 6.2.4. Section summary -- 6.3. The pioneering role of 1st and 2nd person -- 6.4. French -- 6.5. Northern Italian dialects -- 6.5.1. Piattino -- 6.5.2. Vicentino -- 6.5.3. Section summary -- 6.6. Rhaeto-Romance -- 6.7. Language loss and the grammaticalization of agreement markers -- 6.8. Grammaticalization and multiple agreement in Skou -- 6.8.1. Strategies of agreement marking in present-day Skou -- 6.8.2. The historical origin of multiple agreement marking in Skou -- 6.9. Conclusion -- Notes -- Concluding summary -- Note -- References -- Index -- The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.