Table of contents
Sound Laws: Reactions Present and Past1
Passives in Western Malayo-Polynesian: An Asian Perspective15
What can This Be? A west African Contribution to Sranan25
Grammmatical and Lexical Aspect in Akkadian and Proto-Semitic41
Euphemism with Attitude: Politically Charged Language Change57
The Loss of the Voice Dimension Between Late Latin and Early Romance77
How a Historical Linguist and a Native Speaker Understand a Complex Morphology101
The Evolution of Grammar: Evidence from Indo-European Perfects117
Yiddish and Hebrew: Borrowing Through Oral language Contact135
Degenerate Feet in Tacanan Languages: Unmarkedness in OT149
The Evolution of Ó in Open Position: Parallel Developments in French and Dutch Dialects163
The Structure of ra-Deletion in Japanese175
Can Grammaticalization be Explained Invisible Handedly?191
Toward a ‘Standard Yiddish’ Pronounciation: An Instrumentally Aided Phonetic Analysis201
The Evolution of Adverbial Subordinators in Europe213
A corpus-Based Model for the Description of Language Change and Variation in Nominal Classification exemplified by Dutch Seventeenth Century Varieties229
Towards an Explanation of some Morphological Changes which ‘Should Never Have Happened’241
On the Conservatism of Embedded Clauses255
Velars and Palatals in Old English Alliteration269
The Sequencing of Grammaticization Effects: A Twist from North America291
What Research on Creole Genesis Can Contribute to Historical Linguistics315
The Borrowing of Meaning as a Cause of Internal Syntactic Change339
Grammaticalization of Complex Verbal Constructions in Finnish363
Two Models for the Study of Language Contact: A Psycho-Linguistic perspective Versus a Socio-Cultural Perspective377
A Motivated Account of the Semantic Evolution of Watch and its Catalan Equivalents391
Subject Index401
Index of Languages407
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