Table of contents
Introductionvii
Emergence and Evolution of French Nasal Vowels: Reconsidering data through the interplay of production and perception1
Development of Aspect from Ancient Slavic to Bulgaro-Macedonian23
Patterns of ‘Active’ Syntax in Late Latin Pleonastic Reflexives35
Comparative Reconstitution57
Expletives and Change: A morphological approach to syntactic change73
Variation between the French Clitics y and lui: Semantics vs. morphology87
On Simplicity in Linguistic Reconstruction99
Recent Changes in the Tonology of Kyoto Japanese111
On Some Grammaticalization Patterns for Auxiliaries125
Kakari Particles and the Merger of the Predicative and Attributive Forms in Old Japanese155
Is Quantifier-Floating in Japanese a Recent Innovation? Contextual analysis of the numeral quantifier construction in Old Japanese169
Vedic Causative Nasal Presents and their Thematicization: A functional approach191
The ‘Invisible Hand’ at Work: Phonemic change as a ‘phenomenon of the third kind’211
The Origins of Definiteness Marking223
From Deixis ad Oculos to Discourse Markers via Deixis ad Phantasma243
The Legacy of Recycled Aspect261
The Development of Transitivity in the Chibchan Languages of Colombia279
Indo-European *d, *l, and *dl311
Declension in Old and Middle French: Two opposing tendencies327
From Latin Metre to Romance Rhythm345
Diverging Sources of Perfective Aspect Morphology in Tibeto-Kinnauri: External motivation or internal development?361
On the Origins of the Order of agreement and Tense Markers377
Character-Based Reconstruction of a Linguistic Cladogram393
Bringing the Invisible Hand to Cognitive Grammar409
Index423
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