Areal linguistics in prehistory

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Preface v
3. Table of contents vii
4. Regrammaticalization and Regrammaticalization of the inchoative suffix 1
5. Light shed on problems of Turkic conjugation 9
6. On the history of relative clauses in French and some of its dialects 19
7. Functional renewal 33
8. Passives and ergatives in middle Indo-Aryan 49
9. Evidence of grammaticalization in Pennsylvania German 59
10. Old froms for new concepts 77
11. On subjectification in modal adverbs 93
12. Gender, class, and prestige in the spread of an allophonic rule 105
13. Reconstruction of the Proto-Romance syllable 117
14. The development of word-final /b/ in English 133
15. Areal linguistics in prehistory 143
16. The later stages in the development of the definite article 159
17. Parameters underlying the organization of medieval Russian texts 177
18. What the choice of the overt nominalizer NO did to Mmodern Japanese syntax and semantics 191
19. On the categorical evolution 205
20. Regression and creation in the double accusative in Ancient Greek 217
21. Mophological reanalysis and typology 227
22. On the grammaticization of the definite article SE in spoken Finnish 239
23. Identifying an Old French text with the help of dialect analysis 251
24. Prototypically and agenthood in Indo-European 259
25. Genetic congruence versus areal convergence 269
26. On the fate of adjectival declension in Overseas Dutch (with some notes on the history of Dutch) 283
27. Clitic placement from Old to Modern European Portuguese 295
28. A diachronic view of prepositional verbs of emotion in Spanish 309
29. Phonologically based mmorphological change 323
30. Diachronic stable structural features 337
31. The diachronic distibution of bare and prepositional infinitives in English 357
32. Object shift in Old Spanish 371
33. Lexical diffusion as a guide to scribal intent 379
34. Verb-seconding in Old English 387
35. the thematic structure of the main clause in OLd French, OR versus SI 401
36. on different ways of optimizing the sound shape of words 421
37. Exaptation and grammaticalization 433
38. Author’s addresses 447
39. Index of names 449
40. Index of languages 457