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Historical Linguistics 2001: Selected papers from the 15th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Melbourne, 13–17 August 2001
Edited by Barry J. Blake and Kate Burridge
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 237] 2003
► pp. v–vi

Table of contents

Contributor's addressesvii
Prefaceix
Language contact and language change in Amazonia
Grammaticalization and the historical development of the genitive in Mainland Scandinavian
Beyond the comparative method?
The transition from early to modern Portuguese: An approach from historical sociolinguistics
Isomorphism and language change
From purposive/future to present: Shifting temporal categories in the Pilbara languages of north west Western Australia
The formation of periphrastic perfects and passives in Europe: An areal approach
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The grammaticalization of movement: Word order change in Nordic
Paths of development for modal meanings: Evidence from the Finnic potential mood
On degrammaticalization
Process inhibition in historical phonology
Reconsidering the canons of sound-change: Towards a ‘Big Bang’ theory
Case in Middle Danish: A double content system
The development of some Indonesian pronominal systems
Morphological reconstruction as an etymological method
Labovian principles of vowel shifting revisited: The short vowel shift in New Zealand English and Southern Chinese
Conventional implicature and language change: The cyclic evolution of the emphatic pronouns in Romanian
The rise of IPs in the History of English
From subject to object: Case studies on Finnish
Meaning change in verbs: The case of strike
Borrowing as a tool for grammatical optimization in the history of German brand names
Pragmatic relevance as cause for syntactic change: The emergence of prepositional complementizers in Romance
Early Nordic language history and modern runology: With particular reference to reduction and prefix loss
On the interpretation of early evidence for ME vowel-change
On the reflexes of Proto-Germanic ai: The spellings ie, ei and ey in Middle Dutch
Index


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