In:Historical Linguistics 1995: Volume 2: Germanic linguistics
Edited by Richard M. Hogg and Linda van Bergen
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 162] 1998
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 15 September 1998
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.162.toc
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Table of contents
Introductionvii
A subject-verb agreement hierarchy: evidence from analogical change in modern English dialects35
Loss of prototypical meanings in the history of English semantics or semantic redeployment63
Some constraints on the borrowability of syntactic features (and why none of them work)89
Backdating the English Constraint Grammar Parser for the analysis of English historical texts149
Reconstructing the social dimension of diachronic language change189
Grammaticalization versus reanalysis: the case of possessive constructions in Germanic211
Language change in progress: morphological erosion in present-day “South African Dutch” and 18th century “Cape Dutch”269
Phonological simplification vs. stylistic differentiation in the history of German word stress285
On the development of marked negation systems: the Dutch situation in the seventeenth century311
Index of subjects345
Index of names357
