While all of the Scandinavian languages have verb-second order in main clauses, they vary in the word order in subordinate clauses: in Icelandic the finite verb appears in a high position, to the left ...

Syntactic change is viewed as a process that is critically dependent on the surface properties of language and essentially independent of grammatical derivations. In this framework, the genesis of the ...

My point of departure on this research path is the observation that some of us have different grammatical generalizations from others. For example, while some people would say (1), others would say (2 ...