Diachronic Clues to Synchronic Grammar -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Generative approaches to diachronic phenomena -- 2. The logical problem of language change -- 3. On the status of diachronic explanations -- 4. The contributions -- Notes -- References -- On the development of possessive determiners -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical background -- 3. The DP layer in Old English -- 4. Possessive pronouns in Old English -- 4.1. Morphology and distribution -- 4.2. Word order patterns in Old English -- 5. Possessive pronouns in Middle English -- 6. From XP to clitic -- 7. Possessive pronouns in German and French -- 7.1. German -- 7.2. French -- 8. Summary -- Notes -- References -- Diachronic clues to pro-drop and complementizer agreement in Bavarian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The diachronic development of Agr-on-C in Bavarian -- 2.1. 2sg -st -- 2.2. 2pl -ts -- 2.3. 1pl -ma in Lower Bavarian -- 3. Towards an analysis -- 3.1. A synchronic account of complementizer agreement in Germanic -- 3.2. The diachrony of Agr-on-C: syntactic aspects -- 3.3. Morphological aspects -- 4. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Syntactic effects of inflectional morphology and competing grammars -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Syntactic variation and morphological variation -- 3. `XP-subject' orders in Germanic -- 3.1. `XP-subject' in West Germanic -- 3.2. `XP-subject' in Mainland Scandinavian -- 3.3. Morphology, syntax and diachronic change -- 3.4. `XP-subject' in Mainland Scandinavian revisited -- 3.5. Summary -- 4. Word order freedom and case morphology in the history of English -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Language change versus grammar change -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The change from OV to VO in English -- 2.1. Differences between German and English.

2.2. Word order and peripheral rules in the older stages of Germanic -- 3. Unmarked word order and the Universal Base Hypothesis -- 4. Options in grammar and the role of prosodic constraints -- 5. Stylistic change? The development of the German sentence bracket -- 5.1. The role of information-structure -- 5.2. The grammar of focus -- Notes -- References -- The EPP, fossilized movement and reanalysis -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Post-verbal modals in southeast Asia -- 3. Taiwanese, tone sandhi and post-verbal potential modals -- 4. Cantonese -- 5. Triggers for movement, fossilization and the EPP -- 6. Reversal or reanalysis? -- 7. Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- Restructuring and the development of functional categories -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Resultative Verb Constructions/RVCs -- 3. V2-object predication in RVCs -- 4. The historical development of RVCs -- 5. Object/V2 re-positioning and directionality -- 6. Summary and general conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Index -- The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.