I. Allmenn del
Faarlund, J.T. 1990: Syntactic Change. Towards a Theory of Historical Syntax. (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 50) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. (Kap. 1-3)
Harris, A.C. & L. Campbell. 1995: Historical syntax in cross-linguistic perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Kap. 1, 3, 4, 8)
Hopper, Paul J. og Elizabeth Closs Traugott. 1993: Grammaticalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Kap. 1-3)
Lightfoot, D. W. 1999: The Development of Language. Acquisition, Change, and Evolution. Oxford: Blackwell. (Kap. 3-5)
Newmeyer, F.J. 1998: Language Form and Language Function. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. (Kap. 5)
II. Spesiell del
Ca. 150 sider valde innanfor studentens eigen studieretning etter avtale med faglæraren. Både oversynsverk og spesialstudiar bør vera med.
Framlegg til pensum i nordisk:
Bandle, O. et al. (eds.): The Nordic Languages. An international handbook of the history of the North Germanic languages, (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. (Kap. 83 og 127).
Faarlund, J.T. 2000: "Reanalysis in word order stability and change". I R. Sornicola (ed.): Stability and change of word order over time. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Faarlund, J. T. (2001): "The notion of oblique subject and its status in the history of Icelandic." I: J. T. Faarlund (ed.), Grammatical Relations in Change, 99-135. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Faarlund, J.T. 2003: "Reanalyse og grammatikalisering i norske infinitivskonstruksjonar." I: J. T. Faarlund (ed.): Språk i endring. Oslo: Novus.
Mørck, E. 1992: "Subjektets kasus i norrønt og mellomnorsk." Arkiv för Nordisk Filologi.