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In:Variation and Reconstruction
Edited by Thomas D. Cravens
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 268] 2006
► pp. v–vi

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Published online: 5 April 2006
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Variation and reconstruction1
Microvariability in time and space: Reconstructing the past from the present16
Reconstructing variation at shallow time depths: The historical phonetics of 19th century German dialects in the U.S.37
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Social and structural factors in the development of Dutch urban dialects in the Early Modern period59
Reduction of variation in the standardization of Castilian Spanish around 150091
On projecting variation back into a proto-language, with particular attention to Germanic evidence and some thoughts on “drift”103
Variation of direct speech complementizers in Achaemenid Aramaic documents from Fifth Century B.C.E. Egypt119
Language change and the speaker: On the discourse of Historical Linguistics147
Prefix variation and reconstruction165
On reconstructing a linguistic continuum in Cape Dutch (1710 1840)179
The reconstruction of variability in Proto-Germanic gender203
Variation as a reflection of contact: Notes from Southeast Asia215
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Index223
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