Did “Aktionsart” Ever “Compensate” Verbal Aspect in Old and Middle French?

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of Participants xi
4. The Natural Science Background to the Development of Historical-Comparative Linguistics 1
5. The Lexicon and Linguistic Change 25
6. The Semantic Development of can and could from Old English to the Present 37
7. Latin System’s enérgeia vs. Greek System’s argía 47
8. The Coalesence of the Participle and the Gerund/Gerundive 59
9. Episode Boundary Markers in Old English Discourse 73
10. On Proposed Universals of Grammatical Borrowing 91
11. Patterns of Syncretism in Indo-European 111
12. A Morphonological Rule for the Past Tense Formation of Irregular English Verbs 119
13. Contamination in Morphological Change in Algonquian Languages 129
14. The Rise of a New Conceptualization Pattern 141
15. Les résultats de ubi et unde dans l’histoire du français (avec une considération particulière de l’ancien et du moyen français) 155
16. Aspectogenesis in South Dravidian 167
17. Diachronic Syntax and Information Packaging 187
18. Determining the Synchronic Syntax of a Dead Language 211
19. Open Syllable Lengthening in Middle English 221
20. Syntactic Changes in Late Middle English 235
21. Sur l’origine de l’emploi des formes toniques du pronom personnel régime avant les formes verbales non finies (infinitives ou participiales) en ancien français 249
22. Verb Serialization and Word Order 267
23. The Role of Paradigms in the Phonetic Detail of Sound Change 283
24. From Staging Strategies to Syntax 297
25. The Inflectional Systems of Overseas Dutch 313
26. Reconstructing the Unidentified 329
27. Zur Geschichte der Distanzstellung im Deutschen 349
28. Double Modals in Early English 363
29. The Role of Women in Linguistic Change 371
30. Early Diphthongization of Palatalized West Germanic [u:] 389
31. A Moraic Model of the Diachronic Development of Long Vowels and Falling Diphthongs in Friulian 417
32. Did “Aktionsart” Ever “Compensate” Verbal Aspect in Old and Middle French? 429
33. Drift as an Organic Outcome of Type 449
34. An African-American Linguistic Enclave 457
35. Linking Changes in Icelandic 467
36. Coping with Partial Information in Historical Linguistics 485
37. The Effects of the Yod on the Vocalic and Consonantal Systems 497
38. Index of Languages (Language Families, Dialects) 525
39. Index of Names 529