Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Plural inflection in North Sea Germanic languages 17
5. Frequency as a key to language change and reorganisation 57
6. The history of the mixed inflection of German masculine and neuter nouns 93
7. Ablaut reorganisation 149
8. Reorganising voice in the history of Greek 175
9. Making sense of grammatical variation in Norwegian 209
10. Manner of motion and semantic transitivity 231
11. Active and passive tough -infinitives 269
12. Genesis and diachronic persistence of overabundance 119
13. Index 297