This is a very useful comparative volume that also raises interesting general questions about the nature of syntactic change. It puts pathways and cycles of change firmly at the heart of historical syntax and shows their relevance for wider theoretical questions.

- David Willis, University of Cambridge, in Diachronica Vol. 28:2, 2011,

This volume significantly adds to the research on the linguistic status of cyclical change. It provides new evidence and analysis of changes that could reasonably be regarded as cyclical.

- Philip Wallage, Northumbria University, in Journal of Linguistics 46. doi: 10.1017/S002226710000277,

The concept of cyclical change proves a fruitful one: it is applicable across various syntactic domains, as the present volume demonstrates. With the wide range of phenomena covered and the profound formal analyses given, this book presents a milestone in the area of research in cyclical change and more generally in diachronic syntax. It will no doubt be an inspiration on future work on the topic.

- Agnes Jäger, Goethe University Frankfurt, in Language 87(2): 430-432, 2011,