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Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. The history of historical syntax: majorthemes; 3. Overview of a theory of syntactic change; 4. Reanalysis; 5.Extension; 6. Language contact and syntactic borrowing; 7. Processesthat simplify bi-clausal structures; 8. Word order; 9. Alignment; 10.On the development of complex constructions; 11. The nature ofsyntactic change and the issue of causation; 12. Reconstruction ofsyntax; Appendix; Bibliography.