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In:Papers from the VIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Poznań, 22–26 August 1983
Edited by Jacek Fisiak
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 34] 1985
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Table of contents

Prefaceix
List of participantsxi
Conference programmexvii
Divergence and convergence in linguistic evolution1
Areal linguistics and its implications for historical linguistics25
Paradigm economy in Latin nouns57
Ablaut: a phoenix in the history of Afrikaans71
An analysis and synthesis in sound change83
On the diachrony of subtractive poerations: evidence for semiotically based models of natural phonology and natural morphology from northern anatolien greek dialects105
Did old English have a middle voice?129
The vowel /a:/ in English139
Framing the linguistic actions scene in Old and Present-day English: CWEþAN, SECGAN, SP(R)ECAN and Present-day English SPEAK, TALK, SAY and TELL compared149
Lexical restructuring: rule loss versus rule intersection; evidence from Italian171
Theories of sound change fail if they try predict too much183
Chance and necessity in diachronic syntax — word order typologies and the position of modern Persian relative clauses199
Umlaut as a harmony process217
Divergent patterns of word prder in contemporary French235
Articulatory modes and typological universals: the puzzle of Bantu ejectives ans aspirates251
Velar segments in Old English and Old Irish267
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On the semasiologization of phonological rules: the semiotic evolution of Finnish consonant gradation281
Another explanation for the development of s before l in Norwegian291
Wilhelm Scherer’s Zur geschichte der deutschen Sprache: a milestone in 19th-century linguistics301
Proto-Indo-European consonantism: methodological and further typological concerns313
The place of Saussure’s Memoire in the development of historical linguistics323
Indo-European numerals and the sexagesimal system347
Absolute versus relative comparison: typology and development353
Diachronic morphologization: the circumstances surrounding the birth, growth and decline of noun incorporation365
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For a diachrony-in-synchrony analysis394
On the possible clusters of mb, nd, and ŋg in Proto- Japanese409
Are there dysfunctional changes?427
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The Indo-European origin of the Balti Slavic — ē — and — a- preterite441
Variability in word formation patterns and productivity in the American South467
Rule ordering and the dynamics of diatopic language variation489
Le développement d’un auxiliaire modal en yiddish: lozn ‘laiser’499
Confrontation and association515
The bifurcation theory of the Germanic and German consonant shifts: synopsis and some further thoughts527
Prosodic structures and the development of French schwa549
On the origins and developments of American English561
Quelques problèmes des recherche étymologiques sur les emprunts lexicaux571
Morphologische Natürlichkeit und morphologischer Wandel. Zur vorhersagbarkeit von sprachveranderüngen587
Anders Ahlqvist: Summing up601
Index of languages607
Index of names612
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