Contents
Foreword
1 Introduction
1.1 Progress or Degeneration?
1.2 The Records, our Witnesses
1.3 Lack of Change and Historical Explanation
1.4 Our Odyssey
2 The Nineteenth: Century of HIstory
2.1 Historical Relationships
2.2 Sound Change
2.3 Historical Explanations
2.4 Determinist Views of History
3 Grammars and Language Acquisition
3.1 We Know More than we Learn
3.2 The Nature of Grammars
3.3 The Acquisition Problem: The Poverty of the Stimulus
3.4 The Analytical Triplet
3.5 Real-Time Acquisition of Grammars
4 Gradualism and Catastrophes
4.1 Grammars and Change
4.2 Social Grammars
4.3 Gradualism, Imagined and Real
4.4 Catastrophes
4.5 Competing Grammars
4.6 The Spread of New Grammars
4.7 Parametric Change
5 The Loss of Case and its Syntactic Effects
5.1 Case
5.2 Middle English Split genitives
5.3 Inherent Case and Thematic Roles in Early English
5.4 The Loss and Origin of Case Systems
6 Cue-Based Acquisition and Loss of Verb-Second
6.1 Models of Learnability
6.2 Cue-Based Acquisition and Loss of Verb-Second
6.3 V-to-I Raising and its Cue
6.4 Creolisation and Signed Languages
7 Equilibrium and Small Punctuations
7.1 Equilibrium
7.2 Enlish Auxiliary Verbs in the Eighteenth Century
7.3 French chez
8 Historicism: The Use and Abuse of Clio
8.1 Principles of History
8.2 Clio Working through Biology
8.3 Diachronic Reanalyses
8.4 Trajectories
9 The Evolution of the Language Faculty
9.1 Bumpiness
9.2 Explaining Evolution
9.3 A UG Condition on Movement Traces
9.4 The Condition is Maladaptive
9.5 Conclusion
10 A Science of HIstory
10.1 Classical and Chaotic Views of Science
10.2 History as an Epiphenomenon
References
Index
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