Diachronica

Volume 2, Issue 1 (1985)

1985.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 16 July 2012

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.2.1

Table of Contents

Articles / Aufsätze
Teleology/ Semeiosis, and Linguistic Change Michael Shapiro	1–34
Typology and the Study of Language Change Winfred P. Lehmann	35–49
On Suppletion Thomas Markey	51–66
Why did Yiddish Change? Joshua A. Fishman †	67–82
Reviews / Comptes Rendus / Besprechungen
Review of Bammesberger (1984): Lateinische Sprachwissenschaft Reviewed by D. Gary Miller	83–88
Review of Bammesberger (1983): Das etymologische Wörterbuch: Fragen der Konzeption und Gestaltung Reviewed by Carol F. Justus	89–95
Review of Bom-hard (1984): Toward Proto-Nostratic: A new approach to the comparison of Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Afroasiatic Reviewed by Saul Levin	97–104
Review of Costello (1983): Syntactic Change and Syntactic Reconstruction: A tagmemic approach Reviewed by John Algeo	105–109
Review of Kontzi (1982): Substrate und Superstrate in den romanischen Sprachen Reviewed by Hans-Josef Niederehe	111–116
Miscellanea: Notes / Notizen - Discussions / Diskussionen
New Laws for a New Trade? N.E. Collinge	117–122
Publications Received/Ouvrages Reçus/Eingegangene Schriften E.F.K. Koerner †	123–135