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Introduction: Parameters and morphosyntactic change Ans van Kemenade andNigel Vincent; Part I. Aspect, argument structure and case selection: 1. Theinterdependence of case, aspect and referentiality in the history of GermanWerner Abraham; 2. The rise of the article in the Germanic languages JuliaPhilippi; 3. The diachronic development of a modal verb of necessity PaolaBenincA and Cecilia Poletto; 4. Auxiliary verbs in Old and Middle FrenchPhilip H. Miller; 5. Commentary on part I: aspect, argument structure andcase selection Alessandra Tomaselli; Part II. Clitics: 6. The emergence ofthe D-system in Romance Nigel Vincent; 7. On two locations for complementclitic pronouns Maria Luisa Rivero; 8. On the integration of second positionphenomena Josep M. Fontana; Part III. Verb second and comp: 9. Shiftingtriggers and diachronic reanalyses David Lightfoot; 10. Viewing change inprogress Alison Henry; 11. Verb movement in Old and Middle English AnthonyKroch and Ann Taylor; 12. V2 and embedded topicalization in Old and MiddleEnglish Ans van Kemenade; 13. Qu'est-ce que ce que: the diachronic evolutionof a French complementizer Laurie Zaring and Paul Hirschbuhler; 14. Thestructure of parametric change, and V-movement in the history of EnglishAnthony Warner; Part IV. Scrambling and morphological change: 15.Directionality and word order change in the history of English Ian Roberts;16. On the relation between morphological and syntactic case Fred Weerman;17. The rise of positional licensing Paul Kiparsky; The papers by Kiparsky,Roberts and Weerman: an epilogue Hoskuldur Thrainsson; References; Index.