Index of subject matter

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Acknowledgments v
3. Table of contents vii
4. Preface 1
5. Typology as instigator and regulator of linguistic change 7
6. Explaining universals and their exceptions 17
7. Continuity of transmission and genetic relationship 27
8. Chance cognition 37
9. Redundancy as explanation in historical linguistics 47
10. The structure of meaning in semiotic perspective 53
11. Pragmatic and sociolinguitsic bias in semantic change 61
12. The marking of definiteness 75
13. A functional approach to syntactic reconstruction 87
14. Implications of pre-complementizers with hittite š ak-/šek- ‘know’ 97
15. On word order in irish 107
16. Marked and unmarked word order in old norse 115
17. An analysis of the rise of SOV patterns in dutch 123
18. Developments in the dutch left-dislocation structures and the verb-second constraint 137
19. from passive too active in kurdish via the ergative construction 151
20. On the loss of a rule of syntax 165
21. The development of accusative-infinitive constructions 175
22. Syntactic diffusion 183
23. infinitival complements to verbs of motion in ontarian and quebec french 193
24. Verb compounds in greek 199
25. The role of perception in restructuring and relexicalization 211
26. the evolution of clitics 221
27. Circumfixes and typological change 233
28. On the decline of declensional systems 243
29. Conditions on object marking 253
30. Reduction of case markers in Lithuanian 259
31. Analogy and inflectional affix replacement 273
32. Russian conjugation 285
33. Sound change and child language 303
34. The fluctuating intensity of a ‘sound law’ 321
35. Linguistic reasons for phonetic archaisms in romance 331
36. Early intervocalic voicing in tuscan 339
37. The transition problem 349
38. Lexical alternation and the history of english 355
39. Pragmatic features and phonological change 363
40. Tonal accents in basque and greek 371
41. Acquisition and development of “gastarbeiterdeutsch” by migrant workers and their children in germany 381
42. Pidginization and foreigner talk 397
43. Concluding statement 409
44. Index of names 419
45. Index of languages 429
46. Index of subject matter 433