Introduction to "Perspectives on Historical Syntax" (2015) (original) (raw)

. Historical syntax as an emerging eld e present volume is a collection of articles resulting from the international workshop "Syntactic change and syntactic reconstruction: new perspectives" held at the University of Zurich in September 2012 and is devoted to various topics of historical syntax. As is well known, syntax has been less investigated than phonology or morphology in Indo-European studies, and as a consequence thereof, in historical linguistics, which to a large extent has been conducted on Indo-European languages. Although excellent syntactic studies were produced in the research traditions of Neogrammarians and of Structuralists in the XIX century and in the rst half of the XX century (cf.