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In:Historical Linguistics 1993: Selected papers from the 11th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Los Angeles, 16–20 August 1993
Edited by Henning Andersen
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 124] 1995
► pp. vii–ix

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Published online: 18 May 1995
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Regrammaticalization and Regrammaticalization of the inchoative suffix1
Light shed on problems of Turkic conjugation: the northeast Turkic progressive present in — Ipča(t) and the ‘mixed’ conjugation9
On the history of relative clauses in French and some of its dialects19
Functional renewal33
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Passives and ergatives in middle Indo-Aryan49
Evidence of grammaticalization in Pennsylvania German59
Old froms for new concepts: the recategorization of possessive duplications in Mexican Spanish77
On subjectification in modal adverbs93
Gender, class, and prestige in the spread of an allophonic rule105
Reconstruction of the Proto-Romance syllable117
The development of word-final /b/ in English133
Areal linguistics in prehistory: evidence from Indo-European aspect143
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The later stages in the development of the definite article: evidence from French159
Parameters underlying the organization of medieval Russian texts177
What the choice of the overt nominalizer NO did to Mmodern Japanese syntax and semantics191
On the categorical evolution: a case study in Spanish possessives205
Regression and creation in the double accusative in Ancient Greek217
Mophological reanalysis and typology: the case of the Greman r- plural and why English did not develop it227
On the grammaticization of the definite article SE in spoken Finnish239
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Identifying an Old French text with the help of dialect analysis251
Prototypically and agenthood in Indo-European259
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Genetic congruence versus areal convergence: the misfortune of LAtin AD in Romanian269
On the fate of adjectival declension in Overseas Dutch (with some notes on the history of Dutch)283
Clitic placement from Old to Modern European Portuguese295
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A diachronic view of prepositional verbs of emotion in Spanish309
Phonologically based mmorphological change: high-vowel deletion and pardigmatic implications in Old English323
Diachronic stable structural features337
The diachronic distibution of bare and prepositional infinitives in English357
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Object shift in Old Spanish: a minimalist theory approach371
Lexical diffusion as a guide to scribal intent: a comparison of ME “eo” and “e” spellings in the PETERBOROUGH CHRONICLE and the ORMULUM379
Verb-seconding in Old English387
the thematic structure of the main clause in OLd French, OR versus SI401
on different ways of optimizing the sound shape of words421
Exaptation and grammaticalization433
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Author’s addresses447
Index of names449
Index of languages457
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