Grammaticalization and Parametric Variation

<br>Montserrat Batllori is Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Letters and Professor of Spanish Grammar in the Department of Philology and Philosophy, University of Girona. She received her Ph.D. in Spanish Philology at the Universitat Aut noma de Barcelona in 1996. She has published articles on Old Spanish syntax, Old Spanish derivational morphology, sound change--phonetics and phonology--and lexicography. She directs a funded research project on the computerization of Corominas and Pascual's etymological Dictionary. <br>Maria-Llu sa Hernanz is Professor of Spanish Grammar at the Universitat Aut noma de Barcelona. She obtained her PhD in Romance Philology at the Universitat de Barcelona in 1978. Her main field of research is Spanish syntax. She has published several articles in Nueva Revista de Filolog a Hisp nicaand Verba, among other journals. She has also published two books and has contributed to the Gram tica Descriptiva de la Lengua Espa ola, edited by I. Bosque and V. Demonte (1999). <br>Carme Picallo is Professor of Catalan Philology at the Universitat Aut noma de Barcelona. She obtained her PhD in Linguistics at the City University of New York in 1985. Her research interests are in the fields of Theoretical Syntax and Morphology. She has published the results of her research in Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, The Journal of Linguistics and Syntax, among other journals. <br>Francesc Roca is Professor of Spanish Grammar at the Universitat de Girona. He obtained his PhD in Spanish Philology at the Universitat Aut noma de Barcelona in 1997. He has published articles on Spanish syntax and morphology, and on Basque morphology and phonology. His current work focuses on the syntax, semantics and morphology of nominal structures in Spanish and his general research interests are in the fields of Theoretical syntax and Comparative linguistics.<br>

1. Grammaticalization and Parametric Variation; PART I GRAMMATICALIZATION; 2. Grammaticalization, Reanalysis and CP Layering; 3. Verb Movement and Clitics; Variation and Change in Portuguese; 4. Changes in Clausal Orginization and the Position of Clitics in Old French; 5. Exceptional Case Marking and the Loss of the Subjunctive; 6. Reanalysis and Conservancy of Structure in Chinese; 7. The Rise and Fall of DP in French; 8. The Reanalysis of the French prepositional System: A Case of Grammaticalization in Competing Grammars; 9. Accusative Alternations and Argument Structure Organization; PART II PARAMETRIC VARIATION; 10. Parametric Syntax as a Source of Historical-comparative Generalisations; 11. VP-ellipsis, Clitic Placement, and Scrambling in Romance; 12. Microvariation in French Negation Markers: An Historical Perspective; 13. Si and e as CP Expletives in Old Italian; 14. A Diachronic Account of Split-wh Constructions in Greek; 15. The Syntax of Objects in Old English; 16. Clause Type Asymmetries in Old English and the Syntax of Verb Movement