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Prefaceix
General programme of the Conferencexi
Gothic obstruents: the limits of reconstruction1 Structure de l’énoncé indo-européen13 Il s’en va où le français, et pourquoi?35 Attempting the reconstruction of negotion patterns in PIE57 Structure and origin of the “narrative” imperfect71 The evolution of word order: A paedomorphic explanation87 The evolution of future meaning109 Syntactic change and the lexicon123 Die syntax der ältesten lateinischen Prosa137 Diachronic evidence and the affix-clitic distinction151 The syllable and phonological strength: Gradient loss of gemination in Corsican163 Diachronic semantic processes in the middel voice179 Drift and selective mechanisms in morphological change: the Eastern nilotic case193 The diachronic relationship of morphology and syntax211 Old English þa, temporal chains, and narrative structure221 The establishment of “by” to denote agency in Emglish passive constructions239 From Indo-European perfect to Slavic perfect to Slavic preterite251 On doing comparative reconstruction with genetically unrelated languages267 Α(ἰ)εί and the prehistory of Greek noun accentuation283 The instability of peripheral /e./, /ø./, and /o./ in Dutch lects285 Structuralism and diachrony: the development of the indefinite article in English295 On methodology in syntactic reconstruction: reconstructing inter-clause syntax in prehistoric Indo-European305 Considerazioni sulla cronologia relativa dei mutamenti fonetici325 Auxiliary verbs in the universal theory of language change349 Patterns of case syncretism in Indo-European languages355 Integration of phonosymbolism with other categories of language change373 The grammaticalization of social relationship: the origin of number to encode deference407 From conversational to conventional implicature: the romanian pronouns of identity and their substitutes419 Note su /s/ interconsonantica nei dialetti greci antichi429 The prosodic character of early schwa deletion in English445 Articulatory evolution459 Creolization and syntactic change in Romance473 Syllabicity as a genus, Sievers’ law as a species483 Die entwicklung von komplexen zu einfachen semantischen inhalten507 A performance model for a natural theory of linguistic change517 On “normal” full root structure and its historical development535 The rise and fall of final devoicing545 On the historical relation between mental and speech act verbs in English and Japanese561 On the persistence of imperfect grammars: clitic movement from Late Latin to Romance575 The aim of morphological change is a good mixture — not a unifrom language type591 Syntactic and semantic space: the development of the French subjunctive607 The study of semantic change in early Romance (late Latin)619 Paradigmentstrukturbedingungen: Aufbau und veränderung von flexionsparadigmen629 Index of names645
Index of languages657
Index of subject matter665
