Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Preface v
3. Table of contents vii
4. Sound Laws 1
5. Passives in Western Malayo-Polynesian 15
6. What can This Be? 25
7. Grammmatical and Lexical Aspect in Akkadian and Proto-Semitic 41
8. Euphemism with Attitude 57
9. The Loss of the Voice Dimension Between Late Latin and Early Romance 77
10. How a Historical Linguist and a Native Speaker Understand a Complex Morphology 101
11. The Evolution of Grammar 117
12. Yiddish and Hebrew 135
13. Degenerate Feet in Tacanan Languages 149
14. The Evolution of Ó in Open Position 163
15. The Structure of ra -Deletion in Japanese 175
16. Can Grammaticalization be Explained Invisible Handedly? 191
17. Toward a ‘Standard Yiddish’ Pronounciation 201
18. The Evolution of Adverbial Subordinators in Europe 213
19. A corpus-Based Model for the Description of Language Change and Variation in Nominal Classification exemplified by Dutch Seventeenth Century Varieties 229
20. Towards an Explanation of some Morphological Changes which ‘Should Never Have Happened’ 241
21. On the Conservatism of Embedded Clauses 255
22. Velars and Palatals in Old English Alliteration 269
23. The Sequencing of Grammaticization Effects 291
24. What Research on Creole Genesis Can Contribute to Historical Linguistics 315
25. The Borrowing of Meaning as a Cause of Internal Syntactic Change 339
26. Grammaticalization of Complex Verbal Constructions in Finnish 363
27. Two Models for the Study of Language Contact 377
28. A Motivated Account of the Semantic Evolution of Watch and its Catalan Equivalents 391
29. Subject Index 401
30. Index of Languages 407