Table of contents
Part I.Phonology
9
Chapter 1.Old Irish consonant quality re-examined
11
Chapter 2.The use of the past to explain the past: Roman grammarians and the collapse of vowel quantity
27
Chapter 3.Pertinacity in loanwords: Same underlying systems, different outputs
57
Part II.Morphology
75
Chapter 4.Ablaut in Armenian nasal declension
77
Chapter 5.Gender and declension mismatches in West Nordic
97
Chapter 6.The development of gender and countability effects in German ung- and English ing-nominals
115
Chapter 7.Where do Italian -ata nouns come from? Some new diachronic evidence on a Romance derivational pattern
133
Chapter 8.Diachrony and Morphological Equilibrium: The Case of the Southern New Indo-Aryan Verb
149
Chapter 9.Anti-relevant, contra-iconic but system-adequate: On unexpected inflectional changes
171
Part III.Morphosyntax
185
Chapter 10.Impersonal passives and the suffix -r in the Indo-European languages
187
Chapter 11.The Old English verbal prefixes for- and ge-: Their effects on the transitivity of morphological causative pairs
217
Part IV.Syntax
243
Chapter 12.Enclitic -(m)a ‘but’/ -(y)a ‘and’ in Hittite: Losing extraordinary syntactic behavior
245
Chapter 13.State representation and dynamic processes in Homeric Greek: The aorist in -ην in Homeric Greek
271
Chapter 14.Effecting a change: Perfect and middle in some Indo-European languages
287
Chapter 15.Early Indo-European dialects and innovations of aspect systems
301
Chapter 16.Perfecting the notion of Sprachbund: Perfects and resultatives in the ‘Stratified Convergenze Zones’ of Europe
319
Chapter 17.Parameters in the development of Romance perfective auxiliary
343
Chapter 18.Adverbs and the left periphery of non-finite clauses in Old Spanish
385
Part V.Diachronic Typology
403
Chapter 19.The sources of antipassive constructions: A cross-linguistic survey
405
Chapter 20.A diachronic account of converbal constructions in Old Rajasthani
423
Part VI.Semantics and Pragmatics
443
Chapter 21.The locative Alternation with spray/load verbs in Old English
445
Chapter 22.Penetration of French-origin lexis in Middle English occupational domains
459
Chapter 23.Meaning change from superlatives to definite descriptions: A semantic approach
479
Chapter 24.Towards diachronic word classes universals
501
Chapter 25.Grammaticalizing the face in a first generation sign language: The case of “Z”
519
Part VII.Language contact, variation and diffusion
561
Chapter 26.Linguistic divergence under contact
563
Chapter 27.Roots and branches of variation across dialects of English
593
Chapter 28.Waves in computer simulations of linguistic diffusion
615
Index
631
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