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