Table of contents
Prefaceix
General programme of the Conferencexi
Gothic obstruents: the limits of reconstruction1
Structure de l’énoncé indo-européen13
Il s’en va où le français, et pourquoi?35
Attempting the reconstruction of negotion patterns in PIE57
Structure and origin of the “narrative” imperfect71
The evolution of word order: A paedomorphic explanation87
The evolution of future meaning109
Syntactic change and the lexicon123
Die syntax der ältesten lateinischen Prosa137
Diachronic evidence and the affix-clitic distinction151
The syllable and phonological strength: Gradient loss of gemination in Corsican163
Diachronic semantic processes in the middel voice179
Drift and selective mechanisms in morphological change: the Eastern nilotic case193
The diachronic relationship of morphology and syntax211
Old English þa, temporal chains, and narrative structure221
The establishment of “by” to denote agency in Emglish passive constructions239
From Indo-European perfect to Slavic perfect to Slavic preterite251
On doing comparative reconstruction with genetically unrelated languages267
Α(ἰ)εί and the prehistory of Greek noun accentuation283
The instability of peripheral /e./, /ø./, and /o./ in Dutch lects285
Structuralism and diachrony: the development of the indefinite article in English295
On methodology in syntactic reconstruction: reconstructing inter-clause syntax in prehistoric Indo-European305
Considerazioni sulla cronologia relativa dei mutamenti fonetici325
Auxiliary verbs in the universal theory of language change349
Patterns of case syncretism in Indo-European languages355
Integration of phonosymbolism with other categories of language change373
The grammaticalization of social relationship: the origin of number to encode deference407
From conversational to conventional implicature: the romanian pronouns of identity and their substitutes419
Note su /s/ interconsonantica nei dialetti greci antichi429
The prosodic character of early schwa deletion in English445
Articulatory evolution459
Creolization and syntactic change in Romance473
Syllabicity as a genus, Sievers’ law as a species483
Die entwicklung von komplexen zu einfachen semantischen inhalten507
A performance model for a natural theory of linguistic change517
On “normal” full root structure and its historical development535
The rise and fall of final devoicing545
On the historical relation between mental and speech act verbs in English and Japanese561
On the persistence of imperfect grammars: clitic movement from Late Latin to Romance575
The aim of morphological change is a good mixture — not a unifrom language type591
Syntactic and semantic space: the development of the French subjunctive607
The study of semantic change in early Romance (late Latin)619
Paradigmentstrukturbedingungen: Aufbau und veränderung von flexionsparadigmen629
Index of names645
Index of languages657
Index of subject matter665
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