In:Historical Linguistics 2009: Selected papers from the 19th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Nijmegen, 10-14 August 2009
Edited by Ans M.C. van Kemenade and Nynke de Haas
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 320] 2012
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 12 April 2012
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.320.toc
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Table of contents
Foreword & Acknowledgements
Editors’ introduction
Part I. General and specific issues of language change
Competing reinforcements: When languages opt out of Jespersen’s Cycle
On the reconstruction of experiential constructions in (Late) Proto-Indo-European
Criteria for differentiating inherent and contact-induced changes in language reconstruction
Misparsing and syntactic reanalysis
How different is prototype change?
The syntactic reconstruction of alignment and word order: The case of Old Japanese
Part II. Linguistic variation and change in Germanic
The Dutch-Afrikaans participial prefix ge-: A case of degrammaticalization?
Diachronic changes in long-distance dependencies: The case of Dutch
Changes in the use of the Frisian quantifiers ea/oait “ever” between 1250 and 1800
On the development of the perfect (participle)
OV and V-to-I in the history of Swedish
Ethnicity as an independent factor of language variation across space: Trends in morphosyntactic patterns in spoken Afrikaans
The sociolinguistics of spelling: A corpus-based case study of orthographical variation in nineteenth-century Dutch in Flanders
Part III. Linguistic variation and change in Greek
Dative loss and its replacement in the history of Greek
Word order variation in New Testament Greek wh-questions
Part IV. Linguistic change in Romance
The morphological evolution of infinitive, future and conditional forms in Occitan
The evolution of the encoding of direction in the history of French: A quantitative approach to argument structure change
Velle-type prohibitions in Latin: The rise and fall of a morphosyntactic conspiracy
The use and development of habere + infinitive in Latin: An LFG approach
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