This book will support children as they:

* Find out about wartime phrases and use them to write a dialogue

* Write a letter home from a P.O.W. camp

* Read wartime adverts and slogans and decide how effective they are

This book brings together for the first time a series of previously published papers featuring Ian Roberts pioneering work on diachronic and comparative syntax over the last thirty years in one comprehensive volume. Divided into two parts, the volume engages in recent key topics in empirical studies of syntactic theory, with the eight papers on diachronic syntax addressing major changes in the history of English as well as broader aspects of syntactic change, including the introduction to the formal approach to grammaticalisation, and the eight papers on comparative syntax exploring...