Index

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. Emergence and Evolution of French Nasal Vowels 1
5. Development of Aspect from Ancient Slavic to Bulgaro-Macedonian 23
6. Patterns of ‘Active’ Syntax in Late Latin Pleonastic Reflexives 35
7. Comparative Reconstitution 57
8. Expletives and Change 73
9. Variation between the French Clitics y and lui 87
10. On Simplicity in Linguistic Reconstruction 99
11. Recent Changes in the Tonology of Kyoto Japanese 111
12. On Some Grammaticalization Patterns for Auxiliaries 125
13. Kakari Particles and the Merger of the Predicative and Attributive Forms in Old Japanese 155
14. Is Quantifier-Floating in Japanese a Recent Innovation? Contextual analysis of the numeral quantifier construction in Old Japanese 169
15. Vedic Causative Nasal Presents and their Thematicization 191
16. The ‘Invisible Hand’ at Work 211
17. The Origins of Definiteness Marking 223
18. From Deixis ad Oculos to Discourse Markers via Deixis ad Phantasma 243
19. The Legacy of Recycled Aspect 261
20. The Development of Transitivity in the Chibchan Languages of Colombia 279
21. Capitalization 295
22. Indo-European *d, *l, and *dl 311
23. Declension in Old and Middle French 327
24. From Latin Metre to Romance Rhythm 345
25. Diverging Sources of Perfective Aspect Morphology in Tibeto-Kinnauri 361
26. On the Origins of the Order of agreement and Tense Markers 377
27. Character-Based Reconstruction of a Linguistic Cladogram 393
28. Bringing the Invisible Hand to Cognitive Grammar 409
29. Index 423