Multivariable reanalysis and phonological split

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface xi
4. How far has far from become grammaticalized? 1
5. Recent advances in the reconstruction of the Proto-Munda verb 13
6. Multivariable reanalysis and phonological split 31
7. Are old English conjunct clauses really verb-final? 49
8. Alternation according to person in Italo-Romance 63
9. On ablaut and aspect in the history of Aramaic 75
10. Language change and the phonological lexicon of Korean 89
11. Animals and vegetables, Uto-Aztecan noun derivation, semantic classification, and cultural history 105
12. Gradience and linguistic change 119
13. Distinctive vowel length in Old French 145
14. Remains of a submerged continent 157
15. Rapid change among expletive polarity items 175
16. The conversational factor in language change 187
17. On the origin of the Portuguese inflected infinitive 207
18. Innovation of the indirect reflexive in Old French 223
19. Lexical forces shaping the evolution of grammar 241
20. Why “me” and “thee”? 253
21. The English s -genitive 277
22. Default inheritance hierarchies and the evolution of inflectional classes 293
23. On the eve of a new paradigm 309
24. Modeling koineization 325
25. Coreference in the Popolocan languages 337
26. Atlantis Semitica 351
27. Index of languages and language families 371
28. Index of names 377
29. Index of subjects 385