Table of contents
Acknowledgmentsv
preface
Typology as instigator and regulator of linguistic change
Explaining universals and their exceptions
Continuity of transmission and genetic relationship
Chance cognition: A probabilistic model and decision procedure for historical inference
Redundancy as explanation in historical linguistics
The structure of meaning in semiotic perspective
Pragmatic and sociolinguitsic bias in semantic change
The marking of definiteness: A diachronic perspective
A functional approach to syntactic reconstruction
Implications of pre-complementizers with hittite šak-/šek-
‘know’
Marked and unmarked word order in old norse
An analysis of the rise of SOV patterns in dutch
Developments in the dutch left-dislocation structures and the verb-second constraint
from passive too active in kurdish via the ergative construction
On the loss of a rule of syntax
The development of accusative-infinitive constructions
infinitival complements to verbs of motion in ontarian and quebec french
Verb compounds in greek: the elimination of a transformational rule
The role of perception in restructuring and relexicalization: two case histories
Circumfixes and typological change
On the decline of declensional systems: the overall loss of OE nominal case inflections and the ME reanalysis of — es as
his
Conditions on object marking: stages in the history of the east slavic Genitive-accusative
Reduction of case markers in Lithuanian: data for discussion
Analogy and inflectional affix replacement
Russian conjugation: Acquisition and evolutive change
Sound change and child language
The fluctuating intensity of a ‘sound law’
Linguistic reasons for phonetic archaisms in romance
Early intervocalic voicing in tuscan
The transition problem: lexical diffusion vs. variable rules
Lexical alternation and the history of english: evidence from an urban vernacular
Pragmatic features and phonological change
Tonal accents in basque and greek
Acquisition and development of “gastarbeiterdeutsch” by migrant workers and their
children in germany
Pidginization and foreigner talk: chinese pidgin russian
Index of names
Index of languages
Index of subject matter
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