This book connects two linguistic phenomena, modality and subordinators, so that both are seen in a new light, each adding to the understanding of the other. It

One of the principal challenges of historical linguistics is to explain the "causes" of language change. Any such explanation, however, must also address the ac

This volume explores morphosyntactic change in the Late Modern Swedish period from the 18th century and onwards. This period is interesting, for a number of rea

The focus of this volume is on the relation between synchrony and diachrony. It is examined in the light of the most recent theories of language change and ling

This book studies insubordination using Germanic data. On a descriptive level, it distinguishes a wide number of (previously undescribed) types of complement an