STABILITY, VARIATION AND CHANGE OF WORD-ORDER PATTERNS OVER TIME -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- REFERENCES -- PART I. STYLISTIC AND PRAGMATIC PRINCIPLES IN STABILITY, VARIATION AND CHANGE -- LA FORMATION DES PRINCIPES DE L'ORDRE DES MOTS DU RUSSE MODERNE EN TANT QUE PROBLEME DE STYLISTIQUE LITTERAIRE ET DE LINGUISTIQUE -- 0.Introduction -- 1.Naissance du russe moderne -- 2.La théorie des "Trois styles" -- 3.Le problème de la phrase russe -- 4.La structure linéaire et prosodique de la phrase nouvelle -- 4.1 Les hésitations sur les principes nouveaux -- 5.Ordre des mots et prosodie dans la phrase russe contemporaine -- 6.Les rôles pragmatiques en russe -- 7.Ordre des mots et oralité -- ABSTRACT -- BIBLIOGRAPHIE -- FROM VSO TO SVO?WORD ORDER AND REAR EXTRAPOSITION IN COPTIC -- 0. Historical introduction -- 1. The SVO-order in Coptic -- 2. VSO-constructions -- 3. Rear extraposition : a multifunctional feature -- 4. The nci-construction as rheme -- 5. Topic and focus -- 6. Prosodic length and informational weight -- 7. Irregular uses of the nci-extraposition -- 8. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- CONSTITUENT ORDER IN MIDDLE WELSH THE STABILITY OF THE PRAGMATIC PRINCIPLE -- 1. The data, and some preliminaries -- 2. Functional analysis - the pragmatic principle in performance -- 2.1 Topicalization -- 2.2 Sentence-initial verbs -- 2.3 Cleft-constructions -- 2.4 Left-dislocation -- 3. The synchronic stability of the pragmatic principle -- 4. Conclusion -- ABBREVIATIONS -- REFERENCES -- PART II. STABILITY AND DIACHRONY -- STABILITY AGAINST THE ODDS? THE SURVIVAL OF VERB FINAL ORDER IN AKKADIAN -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The facts: word order patterns in Babylonian Akkadian -- 2. Change because of disintegration of the case system?.

3. Change because of inconsistency and parsing problems -- 3.1 OV and postposed relative clauses -- 3.2 Complements and adverbial clauses -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES PRIMARY SOURCES -- SECONDARY SOURCES -- STABILITY IN CLAUSAL/PHRASAL PATTERN CONSTITUENT SEQUENCING: 4000 YEARS OF EGYPTIAN (WITH SOME THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS, ALSO ON CELTIC) -- 1. Egyptian -- 2. Some idiosyncrasies -- 3. Word order: stability and variation over time -- 4. Excurse: word order in Celtic -- 5. Egyptian patterning -- 5.1 Nexus types: no specific SDF -- 5.2 The nucleus /expansion (determinatum /determinans) Grundrichtung in noun phrases. SDF: evolution of the nuclear determinators -- loss of the syntactic category 'adjective' -- 5.3 Negators -- 5.4 The causative conjugation -- 5.5 The cleft sentence and other focussing constructions -- 5.6 The rhematic (predicative) adjective -- 5.7 Nominal-Sentence Patterning -- 5.8 Sentence prosody - enclitic placement: cyclic shift of low-stress slotting -- REFERENCES -- STABILITY, VARIATION AND CHANGE IN WORD ORDER SOME EVIDENCE FROM THE ROMANCE LANGUAGES -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Criteria for determining stability, variation and change in WO across time -- 2. Flexibility over time in transitive structures in the Romance languages -- 3. Discontinuity or minor temporary fluctuations ? -- 4. How old is the SVO trend? -- REFERENCES PRIMARY SOURCES -- SECONDARY SOURCES -- PART III. REANALYSIS, GRAMMATICALIZATION AND CHANGE -- REANALYSIS IN WORD ORDER STABILITY AND CHANGE -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Reanalysis -- 2. Word order change -- 3. Structural change -- 3.1 The Old Norse subject -- 3.2 Ergative constructions -- 4. A problem -- 4.1 The output of reanalysis -- 4.2 Modularity and change -- 5. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- WORD ORDER HARMONIES AND WORD ORDER CHANGE IN GEORGIAN -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Old Georgian -- 2. Modern Georgian.

3. Construction reanalysis -- 3.1 Auxiliary and verb -- 3.2 The comparative construction -- 3.3 Conclusions -- 4. Borrowing as an alternative explanation -- 5. Conclusion -- APPENDIX -- ABBREVIATIONS USED FOR GLOSSING EXAMPLES -- REFERENCES -- WORD ORDER AND THE FIRST PERSON IMPERATIVE -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Person-differentiated imperatives and the first person imperative -- 1.1 English let as a person-neutral imperative marker -- 1.2 Dative-argument verbs with speaker-benefactive uses -- 1.3 The suffixal first person imperative of oldest Indo-European Hittit -- 2. Older Indo-European prayer requests -- 2.1 Suffixing strategies for prayer requests -- 2.2 Lexical and (quasi-)auxiliary "give" -- 3. Summary and conclusions -- REFERENCES -- PART IV. VARIATION AND CHANGE -- VARIANT ORDER OF SURFACE SEGMENTABLES ON THE BORDER BETWEEN MORPHOLOGY AND SYNTAX THE CASE OF PRERADICAL VERBAL MORPHOLOGY IN KARTVELIAN -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Overview of Kartvelian -- 2. Examples of variant morpheme ordering -- 2.1 Old and Early Middle Georgian -- 2.2 Mingrelian -- 2.3 Svan -- 3. Summary and conclusions -- REFERENCES PRIMARY SOURCES -- SECONDARY SOURCES -- WORD ORDER STABILITY AND CHANGE FROM A SOCIOLINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE THE CASE OF EARLY MODERN WELSH -- 1. Sociolinguistic variation and word order theory -- 2. 'Top-down' vs. 'bottom up ' approaches to word order description -- 3. Case study: absolute-initial verb order in Early Modern Welsh -- 3.1 Historical overview -- 3.2 Word order variation in Early Modern Welsh -- 3.3 Accounting for the variation: competition between AIV order and other constructions -- 3.4 The role of stylistic choice in the extension of AIV order -- 4. Implications of the data for sociolinguistic theory -- 4.1 The sociolinguistic nature of the variation -- 4.2 Word order variation and pragmatic meaning.

5. Implications for word order description and word order change -- 6. Conclusion -- ABBREVIATIONS USED FOR GLOSSING EXAMPLES -- REFERENCES PRIMARY SOURCES -- SECONDARY SOURCES -- CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE GREEK AND LATIN CLITIC PRONOUNS -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Ancient Greek and Latin -- 2. Biblical Greek and Latin (and beyond) -- 3. Modern Greek and Romance -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- TWO WORD ORDER PATTERNS IN THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH: STABILITY, VARIATION AND CHANGE -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The order of direct and indirect object in English: a diachronic survey -- 2. The order of direct object and verb in English: a diachronic survey -- 3. Word order change and competing grammars -- REFERENCES PRIMARY SOURCES -- SECONDARY SOURCES -- GENITIVE CONSTRUCTIONS IN EARLY MODERN ENGLISH NEW EVIDENCE FROM A CORPUS ANALYSIS -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Historical development -- 2. Corpus analysis: 1400-1630 -- 2.1 Distribution of genitive constructions -- 3. Genitive functions -- 3.1 Classification of genitive functions -- 3.2 Analysis and results -- 4. Animacy -- 5. Topicality/Idefiniteness -- 6. Conclusion -- REFERENCES PRIMARY SOURCES -- SECONDARY SOURCES -- INDEX OF NAMES -- INDEX OF SUBJECTS -- INDEX OF LANGUAGES.