On projecting variation back into a proto-language, with particular attention to Germanic evidence and some thoughts on “drift”

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Variation and reconstruction 1
5. Microvariability in time and space 17
6. Reconstructing variation at shallow time depths 37
7. Social and structural factors in the development of Dutch urban dialects in the Early Modern period 59
8. Reduction of variation in the standardization of Castilian Spanish around 1500 89
9. On projecting variation back into a proto-language, with particular attention to Germanic evidence and some thoughts on “drift” 103
10. Variation of direct speech complementizers in Achaemenid Aramaic documents from Fifth Century B.C.E. Egypt 119
11. Language change and the speaker 145
12. Prefix variation and reconstruction 165
13. On reconstructing a linguistic continuum in Cape Dutch (1710 1840) 179
14. The reconstruction of variability in Proto-Germanic gender 201
15. Variation as a reflection of contact 213
16. Index 221