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In:Explanation in Historical Linguistics
Edited by Garry W. Davis and Gregory Iverson
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 84] 1992
► pp. v–vi

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Published online: 15 October 1992
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Table of contents

Prefacevii
Event structure accounting for the emerging periphrastic tenses and the passive voice in German1
Historical explanation and historical linguistics17
Elements of resistance in contact-induced language change41
Articulatory variability, categorical perception, and the inevitability of sound change59
On the historical development of marked forms77
On misusing similarity95
Reconstruction and syntactic typology: A plea for a different approach105
Diachronic explanation: putting speakers back into the picture123
Grammatical prototypes and competing motivations in a theory of linguistic change145
Understanding standards167
Rules and analogy179
The development of perfect reduplication in Indo-European193
A look at the data for a global etymology: *tik ‘finger’207
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Author index229
Subject index233
Language index237
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