Cyclical change (John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2009)
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Cyclical change, an introduction / Elly van Gelderen -- Jespersen recycled / Jack Hoeksema -- The Jespersen cycles / Johan van der Auwera -- The negative cycle in early and modern Russian / Olena Tsurska -- Jespersen off course? : the case of contemporary Afrikaans negation / Theresa Biberauer -- Weak pronouns in Italian: instances of a broken cycle? / Diana Vedovato -- The subject cycle of pronominal auxiliaries in old north Russian / Kyongjoon Kwon -- Two instances of a broken cycle : sentential particles in Old Italian / Cecilia Poletto -- The copula cycle / Terje Lohndal -- Rather: on a modal cycle / Remus Gergel -- Cycles of complementation in the Mayan languages / Clifton Pye -- The preposition cycle in English / Cathleen Waters -- The study of syntactic cycles as an experimental science / Roeland Hancock and Thomas G. Bever