Indices

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Preface v
3. Program vii
4. Table of contents xiv
5. Synchronic, diachronic, and panchronic linguistics 1
6. The interplay between diachronic linguistics and dialectology 11
7. Development of tones in languages with distinctive tonal accents 39
8. Diachrony in synchrony 51
9. Determinism in linguistics 65
10. Historical development of tone patterns 75
11. Short-term and long-term teleology in linguistic change 85
12. Sound change and perceptual compensation 119
13. The neogrammarian doctrine 129
14. Observations on the sources, transmission, and meaning of ‘Indo-european’ and related terms in the development of linguistics 153
15. Semantic investiture of underspecified units in syntax 181
16. The phonetic nature of the Neo-Štokavian accent shifts in Serbo-croatian 197
17. Homo : Humus and the semitic counterparts 207
18. La désinence féminine -esse 217
19. Between monogenesis and polygenesis 235
20. On comparative syntax 273
21. A syntactic correlate of style switching in the Canterbury tales 293
22. Evidence of auslautsverhärtung in old saxon 323
23. The application of the comparative method to the philippine languages 345
24. Historical analogy and the peircean categories 359
25. The PIE word order controversy and word order in lithuanian 369
26. On the problem of merger 387
27. The word-and-paradigm model and linguistic change 397
28. Indices 419