In Search of Universal Grammar

Introduction
Terje Lohndal
Scandinavian
On the syntax of the accusative/dative alternation in spatial PPs in Norwegian dative dialects
Tor A. Åfarlí
Spurious topic drop in Swedish
Christer Platzack
Germanic sociolinguistics
"The voice from below": Norwegian language reforms in the 21st century
Unn Røyneland
Gender maintenance and loss in Totenmålet, English, and other major Germanic varieties
Peter Trudgill
French
Non-finite adjuncts in French
Hans Petter Helland
Topics and the left periphery: A comparison of Old French and Modern Germanic
Christine Meklenborg Salvesen
Language change
The developmental logic of the analytic past in German and Polish: An issue of universalism or areal contact?
Werner Abraham
The diachrony of pronouns and demonstratives
Elly van Gelderen
Lesser-studied languages
Origins of metathesis in Batsbi
Alice C. Harris
Indefinitely definite expressions
Jerrold M. Sadock
Language acquisition
Doing diachrony
David Lightfoot
The acquisition of linguistic variation: Parameters vs. micro-cues
Marit Westergaard
Language evolution
The evolution of language
Erika Hagelberg
Language as technology: Some questions that evolutionary linguistics should address
Salikoko S. Mufwene
Index