Table of contents
Prefacev
Programvii
Synchronic, diachronic, and panchronic linguistics1
The interplay between diachronic linguistics and dialectology: Some refinements of Trudgill’s formula11
Development of tones in languages with distinctive tonal accents39
Determinism in linguistics: neogrammarian and transformationalist65
Historical development of tone patterns75
Short-term and long-term teleology in linguistic change85
Sound change and perceptual compensation119
The neogrammarian doctrine: breakthrough or extension of the Schleicherian paradigm129
Observations on the sources, transmission, and meaning of ‘Indo-european’ and related terms
in the development of linguistics153
Semantic investiture of underspecified units in syntax181
The phonetic nature of the Neo-Štokavian accent shifts in Serbo-croatian197
Homo : Humus and the semitic counterparts: The oldest culturally significant Etymology?207
La désinence féminine -esse217
Between monogenesis and polygenesis235
A syntactic correlate of style switching in the Canterbury tales293
Evidence of auslautsverhärtung in old saxon323
The application of the comparative method to the philippine languages345
Historical analogy and the peircean categories359
The PIE word order controversy and word order in lithuanian369
On the problem of merger387
The word-and-paradigm model and linguistic change: the verbal system of ojibwa397
Indices419
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