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In:Historical Linguistics 1991: Papers from the 10th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam, August 12–16, 1991
Edited by Jaap van Marle
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 107] 1993
► pp. v–vi

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Published online: 6 August 1993
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Table of contents

Prefacevii
General programme of the conferenceix
The tendency towards right branching in the development and acquisition of Latin and French1
Linguistics and its positivist handicap19
Question words in 18th-century and 20th-century Sranan31
The explanation of syntactic change: a historical perspective49
Traffic between the pragmatic and structural levels71
Parameter resetting87
Old French and constraints on consonant epenthesis99
The definite article: early stages of development111
Language change: complex in its sources and directions, yet simple in systematicity135
Suppression of a word-order pattern in Westgermanic153
Modularity in language change175
Blood, tears, and murder: the evidence for Proto-Uto-Aztecan syllable-final consonants199
On leapfrogging in historical phonology211
Greenberg’s American Indian classification: a report on the controversy229
The grammaticalization of Spanish haber plus participle243
Latin to Romance (again!): change or genesis?265
Linguistic variants and language change: deictic variants in some German and Dutch dialects vis-à-vis Afrikaans281
‘Typological conservatism’ and framing constructions in German morphosyntax295
On the evidence for bimoric vowels in Early English315
Longterm evolution of the syntax of discourse and the Swahili person markers325
Jewish historical linguistics: 1981–1991–2001343
Gerunds and their objects in the Modern English period363
Indices (prepared by Boudewijn Smid)
Index of names377
Index of languages385
Index of subject matter389
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