While Modern Icelandic exhibits a virtually uniform VO order in the VP, Old(er) Icelandic had both VO order and OV order, as well as ‘mixed’ word order patt

This book presents a new perspective on the interaction between word-order and grammaticalisation by investigating the changes that stylistic fronting and obliq

followed by the loss of morphology. --Book Jacket.

The case studies in this volume offer new insights into word order change. As is now becoming increasingly clear, word order variation rarely attracts social va

This volume explores word order change within the framework of diachronic generative syntax and offers new insights into word order, syntactic movement, and rel