The reconstruction of language in its social context

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Liste des participants x
5. Endgültiges Programm der Konferenz xviii
6. On explaining language change 1
7. Assibilation in Sino-Korean 15
8. Le français de demain 20
9. Why small children cannot change language on their own 29
10. The analogical pressure of synonymy 38
11. Subject raising in Old Irish 44
12. The system of verbs involving a speaker-hearer relationship 54
13. Word order change in Dutch imparative clauses 62
14. On the development of the modals and the epistemic function in English 74
15. Some phonological changes in Polynesian languages 98
16. Ablaut and syntax in Kartvelian 110
17. Shifting systems 117
18. Aspects of the evolution of relatives in Romance 123
19. On the historical continuity of linguistic systems 133
20. Change of language as a prototype for change of linguistics 142
21. Diachronic facts vs. synchronic fiction 149
22. Semantic change and etymologies 163
23. Morphologycal influences on soundchange 171
24. The system of negation in later Middle English prose 176
25. Reductive phonetic developments as the trigger to typological change 190
26. Modern Irish grammars and the plural marker acha 196
27. Graphology and sound change in Old Prussian 201
28. Iconicity in phonological change 211
29. On the problem of historical interpretation 223
30. The mistery of the vanished Laurentinians 230
31. On the origin of the Portugese inflected infinitive 243
32. Schreibumwertung und die Methoden der historischen Phonologie 249
33. On the sources of Indo-European conjunctions of purpos, cause and result 256
34. A Neglected phonetic law 265
35. Explorations on syntactic change (relative clause formation strategies) 283
36. The reconstruction of language in its social context 293
37. Vivid language and language change 304
38. From deontic to epistemic 316
39. On short-term language change 324
40. Conversational pues in Spanish 332
41. Numerical and socio-linguistic perspectives of the p/pf-isogloss in South-Rhenish Franconian dialects 341
42. Historical metrics 356
43. Structural change and pidginization in the history of the Arabic language 362
44. Theories of language and the nature of evidence and explanation in historical linguistics 374
45. From discourse to syntax 385
46. Historical linguistics and metaphilology 394
47. On the historical roots of the philology and historical linguistics 425
48. Scribal practise and historical phonology 433
49. Discussion 442
50. Concluding remarks 460
51. Index Fontium et Nominum 467
52. Index Linguarum 508
53. Index Rerum 516