TY - BOOK AU - Lightfoot,David TI - Principles of diachronic syntax SN - 0521293502 PY - 1979/// CY - Cambridge, New York, N.Y. PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Syntax KW - Historical linguistics N1 - Includes bibliographical references : (p. [409]-427) and index; Preliminaries--A paradigm case : the English modals--A theory of change--More category changes--Changes in the lexicon ER -