Why is it that changes occurring in a given language at a certain time cannot be reliably predicted to recur in other languages, under apparently similar conditions? This title features the contributions that elucidate various aspects of this problem, including: What processes can be identified as the drivers of change?

1. List of contributors; 2. Introduction: Continuity and change in grammar (by Breitbarth, Anne); 3. Part I. Continuity; 4. What changed where?: A plea for the re-evaluation of dialectal evidence (by Axel, Katrin); 5. Impossible changes and impossible borrowings: The Final-over-Final Constraint (by Biberauer, Theresa); 6. Continuity is change: The long tail of Jespersen's cycle in Flemish (by Breitbarth, Anne); 7. Using the Matrix Language Frame model to measure the extent of word-order convergence in Welsh-English bilingual speech (by Davies, Peredur); 8. On language contact as an inhibitor of language change: The Spanish of Catalan bilinguals in Majorca (by Enrique-Arias, Andres); 9. Towards notions of comparative continuity in English and French (by Gergel, Remus); 10. Variation, continuity and contact in Middle Norwegian and Middle Low German (by Sundquist, John D.); 11. Part II. Change; 12. Directionality in word-order change in Austronesian languages (by Aldridge, Edith); 13. Negative co-ordination in the history of English (by Ingham, Richard P.); 14. Formal features and the development of the Spanish D-system (by Ishikawa, Masataka); 15. The rise of OV word order in Irish verbal-noun clauses (by Lash, Elliott); 16. The great siSwati locative shift (by Marten, Lutz); 17. The impact of failed changes (by Postma, Gertjan); 18. A case of degrammaticalization in northern Swedish (by Rosenkvist, Henrik); 19. Jespersen's Cycle in German from the phonological perspective of syllable and word languages (by Szczepaniak, Renata); 20. An article on the rise: Contact-induced change and the rise and fall of N-to-D movement (by Dimitrova-Vulchanova, Mila); 21. Language index; 22. Subject index