Il s’en va où le français, et pourquoi?

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface ix
4. General programme of the Conference xi
5. Gothic obstruents 1
6. Structure de l’énoncé indo-européen 13
7. Il s’en va où le français, et pourquoi? 35
8. Attempting the reconstruction of negotion patterns in PIE 57
9. Structure and origin of the “narrative” imperfect 71
10. The evolution of word order 87
11. The evolution of future meaning 109
12. Syntactic change and the lexicon 123
13. Die syntax der ältesten lateinischen Prosa 137
14. Diachronic evidence and the affix-clitic distinction 151
15. The syllable and phonological strength 163
16. Diachronic semantic processes in the middel voice 179
17. Drift and selective mechanisms in morphological change 193
18. The diachronic relationship of morphology and syntax 211
19. Old English þa , temporal chains, and narrative structure 221
20. The establishment of “by” to denote agency in Emglish passive constructions 239
21. From Indo-European perfect to Slavic perfect to Slavic preterite 251
22. On doing comparative reconstruction with genetically unrelated languages 267
23. Α(ἰ)εί and the prehistory of Greek noun accentuation 283
24. The instability of peripheral /e./, /ø./, and /o./ in Dutch lects 285
25. Structuralism and diachrony 295
26. On methodology in syntactic reconstruction 305
27. Considerazioni sulla cronologia relativa dei mutamenti fonetici 325
28. Time 339
29. Auxiliary verbs in the universal theory of language change 349
30. Patterns of case syncretism in Indo-European languages 355
31. Integration of phonosymbolism with other categories of language change 373
32. The grammaticalization of social relationship 407
33. From conversational to conventional implicature 419
34. Note su /s/ interconsonantica nei dialetti greci antichi 429
35. The prosodic character of early schwa deletion in English 445
36. Articulatory evolution 459
37. Creolization and syntactic change in Romance 473
38. Syllabicity as a genus, Sievers’ law as a species 483
39. Die entwicklung von komplexen zu einfachen semantischen inhalten 507
40. A performance model for a natural theory of linguistic change 517
41. On “normal” full root structure and its historical development 535
42. The rise and fall of final devoicing 545
43. On the historical relation between mental and speech act verbs in English and Japanese 561
44. On the persistence of imperfect grammars 575
45. The aim of morphological change is a good mixture — not a unifrom language type 591
46. Syntactic and semantic space 607
47. The study of semantic change in early Romance (late Latin) 619
48. Paradigmentstrukturbedingungen 629
49. Index of names 645
50. Index of languages 657
51. Index of subject matter 665