Relative Clauses in Time and Space -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 What is diachronic typology? -- 1.1.1 Typology as a tool for investigating language change -- 1.1.2 Historical linguistics as a tool for investigating typology -- 1.1.3 'What's where why' becomes 'what's where when and why'? -- 1.2 About this book -- 1.2.1 Demonstrating the methods of diachronic typology -- 1.2.2 Why use relative clauses as a case study? Some methodological considerations -- 1.3 A brief introduction to the relative clause -- 1.3.1 What is a relative clause? -- 1.3.2 The types and subtypes of relative clauses -- 1.3.3 Relative clause markers -- 1.3.4 Relative clauses around the world -- 1.3.5 Relative clauses through time -- 2. Sources and extension of grammatical markers -- 2.1 Types of relationship between grammatical markers -- 2.2 Case studies of sources and extensions -- 2.2.1 Pronouns -- 2.2.2 Classifiers and generic nouns -- 2.2.3 Discourse markers -- 2.2.4 Possessives -- 2.2.5 Comparatives -- 2.2.6 Adverbial clauses -- 2.2.7 Complement clauses -- 2.2.8 General subordination -- 2.2.9 Adjective markers -- 2.2.10 General linkers -- 2.2.11 Less well-documented extensions -- 2.3 Conclusions: What came from where, when and why? -- 3. Other types of relationship between grammatical markers -- 3.1 Redistribution of markers -- 3.2 Loss of markers -- 3.2.1 Loss and general typological change -- 3.3 Formal changes -- 3.3.1 From invariant complementiser to inflecting pronoun and vice versa -- 3.3.2 From free-standing marker to verb affix -- 3.4 Grammatical markers: What's where when and why? -- 3.4.1 Relative clause markers in space and time -- 3.4.2 Relative clause markers and language contact -- 3.4.3 Implications for the methods of diachronic typology.

4. Syntactic change in the development of RC constructions -- 4.1 The origins of embedded clauses -- 4.2 Deranking and balancing of verb forms -- 4.3 Correlatives -- 4.4 Change in clause order -- 4.4.1 Relative clauses that follow the head -- 4.4.2 Relative clauses that precede the head -- 4.5 Syntax: What's where, when and why? -- 4.5.1 Stability -- 4.5.2 Implications for the methods of diachronic typology -- 5. Relevant factors in language change: The importance of contact -- 5.1 'Basic word order' as a factor in relative clause change -- 5.2 Other word order 'harmonies' as a factor in relative clause change -- 5.3 Embedding as a factor in relative clause change -- 5.4 The relationship between grammatical marker type and syntactic change -- 5.5 The relevance of language family affiliation to relative clause change -- 5.6 Language contact and relative clause change -- 5.7 The relative influence of internal and external factors -- 6. Conclusions -- 6.1 What's where when? Mapping relative clauses in three dimensions -- 6.2 and why: Processes and mechanisms -- 6.3 Language contact -- 6.4 Implications for the structure of relative clauses -- 6.5 Implications for taxonomies of relative clause types -- 6.6 The methods of diachronic typology -- References -- Appendices -- A. Constructions -- B. Markers -- C. Sources -- Language index -- Subject index.