Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: The noun phrase -- Some observations on the usage of adnominal genitives and datives in Middle Bulgarian Church Slavonic -- Quantifying syntactic influence: Word order, possession and definiteness in Old Church Slavonic and Greek -- The decay of cases in Molise Slavonic -- Part II: The verbal phrase and related topics -- Null subjects and person in Old North Russian -- On the permeability of grammars: Syntactic pattern replications in heritage Croatian and heritage Serbian spoken in Germany -- Possessive resultative constructions in Old and Middle Polish -- Mechanisms of word order change in 12th and 13th century Serbian -- Historical development and contemporary usage of discourse structuring elements based on verba dicendi in Croatian -- Part III: The complex sentence -- The status and origin of the accusativus cum infinitivo construction in Old Church Slavonic -- On triangulation in the domain of clause linkage and propositional marking -- The development of perception verb complements in the Serbian language -- A tale of two pathways: On the development of relative clause chaining in East Slavonic -- Relativisation strategies in Slovene: Diachrony between language use and language description -- Index