On the irregularity of Open Syllable Lengthening in German

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Part I. Grammaticalization
5. Lexicalization and grammaticalization all over again 3
6. Grammaticalization as reduction: Focus constructions in Chiapas Zoque 21
7. Metaphor and teleology do not drive grammaticalization 33
8. Part II. Syntax and semantics
9. Processing factors in syntactic variation and change: Clitics in Medieval and Renaissance Spanish 51
10. Dynamic Syntax and dialogue modelling: Preliminaries for a dialogue-driven account of syntactic change 73
11. An economy approach to the triggering of the Russian instrumental predicate case 103
12. Change and variation in ga/no conversion in Tokyo Japanese 119
13. Perfect change: Synchrony meets diachrony 133
14. Variable use of negation in Middle Low German 149
15. Is there a DP in Old English? 167
16. Part III. Morphology
17. Some semantic and pragmatic aspects of case-loss in Old French 191
18. The final stages of deflection: The case of Afrikaans het "have" 207
19. Demonstrative paradigm splitting in the Pilbara languages of Western Australia 223
20. Infinitival forms in Aramaic 239
21. The role of productivity in word-formation change 257
22. Part IV. Phonetics and phonology
23. Structured imbalances in the emergence of the Korean vowel system 275
24. Final features and proto-Uto-Aztecan: A contribution using morphological reconstruction 295
25. Facts, theory and dogmas in historical linguistics: Vowel quantity from Latin to Romance 311
26. On the irregularity of Open Syllable Lengthening in German 337
27. The resilience of prosodic templates in the history of West Germanic 351
28. Part V: Variation
29. Urban interactions and written standards in Early Modern German 369
30. The Hollandish roots of Pella Dutch in Iowa 385
31. Language index 403
32. Name index 405
33. Subject index 411