Pragmatic relevance as cause for syntactic change

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Contributor's addresses vii
4. Preface ix
5. Language contact and language change in Amazonia 1
6. Grammaticalization and the historical development of the genitive in Mainland Scandinavian 21
7. Beyond the comparative method? 33
8. The transition from early to modern Portuguese 59
9. Isomorphism and language change 71
10. From purposive/future to present 87
11. The formation of periphrastic perfects and passives in Europe 105
12. The grammaticalization of movement 129
13. Paths of development for modal meanings 143
14. On degrammaticalization 163
15. Process inhibition in historical phonology 181
16. Reconsidering the canons of sound-change 205
17. Case in Middle Danish 221
18. The development of some Indonesian pronominal systems 237
19. Morphological reconstruction as an etymological method 271
20. Labovian principles of vowel shifting revisited 293
21. Conventional implicature and language change 303
22. The rise of IPs in the History of English 321
23. From subject to object 339
24. Meaning change in verbs 351
25. Borrowing as a tool for grammatical optimization in the history of German brand names 363
26. Pragmatic relevance as cause for syntactic change 377
27. Early Nordic language history and modern runology 391
28. On the interpretation of early evidence for ME vowel-change 403
29. On the reflexes of Proto-Germanic ai 417
30. Index 431