Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Participants -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. The Nature of Syntactic Change -- 1. On the Gradual Nature of Syntactic Change -- 2. Syntactic Reanalysis -- 3. Reanalysis and Actualization in Syntactic Change -- II. Word Order Change -- 4. The Drift from VSO to SVO in Biblical Hebrew: The Pragmatics of Tense-Aspect -- 5. Syntactic Change and SOV Structure: The Yuman Case -- 6. Motivations for Exbraciation in Old English -- III. Syntactic Change and Ergativity -- 7. On Mechanisms by Which Languages Become Ergative -- 8. The Syntactic Development of Australian Languages -- IV. Development of the Copula -- 9. A Mechanism for the Development of Copula Morphemes -- 10. From Existential to Copula: The History of Yuman BE -- V. Clisis and Verb Morphology -- 11. The Evolution of Third Person Verb Agreement in the Iroquoian Languages -- 12. From Auxiliary Verb Phrase to Inflectional Suffix -- 13. Clisis and Diachrony -- VI. Multiple Analyses -- 14. Multiple Analyses -- Author Index -- Language Index