Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Typological reflections on loss of morphological case in Middle Low German and in the Mainland Scandinavian languages 1
5. Ethnoreconstruction in Kok-Papónk 21
6. Rraising verbs vs. auxiliaries 31
7. On the origin of the final unstressed [i] in Brazilian and other varieties of Portuguese 47
8. Socio-historical evidence for copula variability in rural Southern America 61
9. Main Stress Left in Early Middle English 75
10. Some dialectal, sociolectal and communicative aspects of word order variation and change in Late Middle English 87
11. Using Universal Principles of Phonetic Qualitative Reduction in Grammaticalization to explain the Old Spanish Shift from ge to se 103
12. The origin of transitive auxiliary verbs in Chukotko-Kamchatkan 115
13. Grammaticalisation and Latin 131
14. Paths of semantic extension 141
15. Vanishing discourse markers 159
16. From ditransitive to monotransitive structure in the history of the Spanish language. Reanalysis of objects 179
17. Reflexive intensification in Spanish 199
18. Modern Swedish bara 225
19. Nordic prefix loss and metrical stress theory with particular reference to ga - and bi - 241
20. The origin and development of lär , a modal epistemic in Swedish 257
21. The development of the Spanish verb ir to an auxiliary of voice 279
22. The development of continuous aspect 301
23. Index 316