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In:Historical Linguistics 1995: Volume 1: General issues and non-Germanic Languages.
Edited by John Charles Smith and Delia Bentley
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 161] 2000
► pp. v–vi

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Published online: 15 March 2000
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Introductionvii
Emergence and Evolution of French Nasal Vowels: Reconsidering data through the interplay of production and perception1
Development of Aspect from Ancient Slavic to Bulgaro-Macedonian23
Patterns of ‘Active’ Syntax in Late Latin Pleonastic Reflexives35
Comparative Reconstitution57
Expletives and Change: A morphological approach to syntactic change73
Variation between the French Clitics y and lui: Semantics vs. morphology87
On Simplicity in Linguistic Reconstruction99
Recent Changes in the Tonology of Kyoto Japanese111
On Some Grammaticalization Patterns for Auxiliaries125
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Kakari Particles and the Merger of the Predicative and Attributive Forms in Old Japanese155
Is Quantifier-Floating in Japanese a Recent Innovation? Contextual analysis of the numeral quantifier construction in Old Japanese169
Vedic Causative Nasal Presents and their Thematicization: A functional approach191
The ‘Invisible Hand’ at Work: Phonemic change as a ‘phenomenon of the third kind’211
The Origins of Definiteness Marking223
From Deixis ad Oculos to Discourse Markers via Deixis ad Phantasma243
The Legacy of Recycled Aspect261
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The Development of Transitivity in the Chibchan Languages of Colombia279
Capitalization295
Indo-European *d, *l, and *dl311
Declension in Old and Middle French: Two opposing tendencies327
From Latin Metre to Romance Rhythm345
Diverging Sources of Perfective Aspect Morphology in Tibeto-Kinnauri: External motivation or internal development?361
On the Origins of the Order of agreement and Tense Markers377
Character-Based Reconstruction of a Linguistic Cladogram393
Bringing the Invisible Hand to Cognitive Grammar409
Index423
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