Continuity and change in grammar / edited by Anne Breitbarth ... [et al.].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What changed where? A plea for the re-evaluation of dialectal evidence / Katrin Axel & Helmut Weiss -- Impossible changes and impossible borrowings: the Final-over-Final Constraint / Theresa Biberauer, Michelle Sheehan & Glenda Newton -- Continuity is change: the long tail of Jespersen's cycle in Flemish / Anne Breitbarth & Liliane Haegeman -- Using the Matrix Language Frame model to measure the extent of word-order convergence in Welsh-English bilingual speech / Peredur Davies & Margaret Deuchar -- On language contact as an inhibitor of language change: the Spanish of Catalan bilinguals in Majorca / Andrés Enrique-Arias -- Towards notions of comparative continuity in English and French / Remus Gergel -- Variation, continuity and contact in Middle Norwegian and Middle Low German / John D. Sundquist Change, directionality in word-order change in Austronesian languages / Edith Aldridge -- Negative co-ordination in the history of English / Richard Ingham -- Formal features and the development of the Spanish D-system / Masataka Ishikawa -- The rise of OV word order in Irish verbal-noun clauses / Elliott Lash -- The great siSwati locative shift / Lutz Marten -- The impact of failed changes / Gertjan Postma -- A case of degrammaticalization in northern Swedish / Henrik Rosenkvist -- Jespersen's Cycle in German from the phonological perspective of syllable and word languages / Renata Szczepaniak -- An article on the rise: Contact-induced change and the rise -- And fall of n-to-d movement / Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova & Valentin Vulchanov.