Papers from the VIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Poznań, 22–26 August 1983

• Preface | p. ix
• List of participants | p. xi
• Conference programme | p. xvii
• Divergence and convergence in linguistic evolution
  Henrik Birnbaum | p. 1
• Areal linguistics and its implications for historical linguistics
  Lyle Campbell | p. 25
• Paradigm economy in Latin nouns
  Andrew D. Carstairs-McCarthy | p. 57
• Ablaut: a phoenix in the history of Afrikaans
  C. Jac Conradie | p. 71
• An analysis and synthesis in sound change
  Andrei Danchev | p. 83
• On the diachrony of subtractive poerations: evidence for semiotically based models of natural phonology and natural morphology from northern anatolien greek dialects
  Wolfgang U. Dressler and Veneeta Acson | p. 105
• Did old English have a middle voice?
  Thomas H.K. Fraser | p. 129
• The vowel /a:/ in English
  Hubert Gburek | p. 139
• Framing the linguistic actions scene in Old and Present-day English: CWEþAN, SECGAN, SP(R)ECAN and Present-day English SPEAK, TALK, SAY and TELL compared
  Louis Goossens | p. 149
• Lexical restructuring: rule loss versus rule intersection; evidence from Italian
  Rita de Grandis | p. 171
• Theories of sound change fail if they try predict too much
  Jadranka Gvozdanović | p. 183
• Chance and necessity in diachronic syntax — word order typologies and the position of modern Persian relative clauses
  Hubert Haider | p. 199
• Umlaut as a harmony process
  Camiel S.J.N. Hamans | p. 217
• Divergent patterns of word prder in contemporary French
  Martin B. Harris | p. 235
• Articulatory modes and typological universals: the puzzle of Bantu ejectives ans aspirates
  Robert K. Herbert | p. 251
• Velar segments in Old English and Old Irish
  Raymond Hickey | p. 267
• On the semasiologization of phonological rules: the semiotic evolution of Finnish consonant gradation
  Eugene Holman | p. 281
• Another explanation for the development of s before l in Norwegian
  Ernst Håkon Jahr | p. 291
• Wilhelm Scherer’s Zur geschichte der deutschen Sprache: a milestone in 19th-century linguistics
  Kurt R. Jankowsky | p. 301
• Proto-Indo-European consonantism: methodological and further typological concerns
  Brian D. Joseph | p. 313
• The place of Saussure’s Memoire in the development of historical linguistics
  E.F.K. Koerner | p. 323
• Indo-European numerals and the sexagesimal system
  Witold Mańczak | p. 347
• Absolute versus relative comparison: typology and development
  Thomas Markey | p. 353
• Diachronic morphologization: the circumstances surrounding the birth, growth and decline of noun incorporation
  Marianne Mithun | p. 365
• For a diachrony-in-synchrony analysis
  Ruta Nagucka | p. 394
• On the possible clusters of mb, nd, and ŋg in Proto- Japanese
  Fred C.C. Peng | p. 409
• Are there dysfunctional changes?
  Anna Giacalone Ramat | p. 427
• The Indo-European origin of the Balti Slavic — ē — and — a- preterite
  Jens Elmegård Rasmussen | p. 441
• Variability in word formation patterns and productivity in the American South
  Edgar W. Schneider | p. 467
• Rule ordering and the dynamics of diatopic language variation
  Johan Taeldeman | p. 489
• Le développement d’un auxiliaire modal en yiddish: lozn ‘laiser’
  Moshe Taube | p. 499
• Confrontation and association
  Elizabeth Closs Traugott | p. 515
• The bifurcation theory of the Germanic and German consonant shifts: synopsis and some further thoughts
  Theo Vennemann | p. 527
• Prosodic structures and the development of French schwa
  S. Paul Verluyten | p. 549
• On the origins and developments of American English
  Wolfgang Viereck | p. 561
• Quelques problèmes des recherche étymologiques sur les emprunts lexicaux
  Bogdan Walczak | p. 571
• Morphologische Natürlichkeit und morphologischer Wandel. Zur vorhersagbarkeit von sprachveranderüngen
  Wolfgang Ullrich Wurzel | p. 587
• Anders Ahlqvist: Summing up | p. 601
• Index of languages | p. 607
• Index of names | p. 612

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