Diachronica 21:1

[Diachronica, 21:1] 2004. 252 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.21.1

Table of Contents

Editorial	1–3
Articles / Aufsätze
On reanalysis and actualization in syntactic change: The rise and development of English verbal gerunds Teresa Fanego	5–55
Why are language families larger in some regions than in others? Eric W. Holman	57–84
Into the past: Morphological change in the dying years of Dalmatian Martin Maiden	85–111
Innovation in language contact: Be after V-ing as a future gram in Irish English, 1670 to the present Kevin McCafferty	113–160
A production account of sound changes affecting diphthongs and triphthongs in Romance Daniel Recasens	161–197
Reviews / Comptes rendus / Besprechungen
Review of “Actualization: Linguistic change in progress” by Henning Andersen (ed.) Reviewed by Edwin Battistella	199–204
Review of “The Handbook of Language Variation and Change” by J. K. Chambers, Peter Trudgill and Natalie Schilling-Estes (eds.) Reviewed by Ruth King	204–208
Review of “Comparative Historical Dialectology: Italo-Romance clues to Ibero-Romance sound change” by Thomas D. Cravens Reviewed by Steven N. Dworkin	208–213
Review of “Pre-Indo-European” by Winfred P. Lehmann Reviewed by Andrew L. Sihler	214–226
Review of “Regularity in Semantic Change” by Elizabeth Closs Traugott & Richard B. Dasher Reviewed by Benjamin W. Fortson IV	226–236
Publications received / Ouvrages reçus / Eingegangene Schriften	237–247

Subjects

Linguistics

Historical linguistics

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General