Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword & acknowledgements ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Phonology
6. Middle English vowel length in French loanwords 9
7. Dental fricatives and stops in Germanic 19
8. Dialect variation and the Dutch diminutive 37
9. Part II. Morphology, syntax and semantics
10. On the disappearance of genitive types in Middle English 49
11. An asymmetric view on stage II in Jespersen’s cycle in the West Germanic languages 61
12. Temporal reference and grammaticalization in the Spanish perfect(ive) 73
13. (Un)-interpretable features and grammaticalization 83
14. Imperative morphology in diachrony evidence from the Romance languages 99
15. VO vs V(…)O en Français 109
16. On the development of Recipient passives in DO languages 123
17. The emergence of DP in the history of English 135
18. A diachronic view of Psychological verbs with Dative Experiencers in Spanish and Romanian 149
19. On the loss of the masculine genitive plural in Cypriot Greek 161
20. The rise of peripheral modifiers in the noun phrase 175
21. Wild variation, random patterns, and uncertain data* 185
22. Part III. Sociolinguistics and dialectology
23. Le changement linguistique dans la langue orale selon deux recherches sur le terrain séparées d’un siècle 197
24. Patrons sociolinguistiques chez trois générations de locuteurs acadiens 211
25. Change of functions of the first person pronouns in Chinese 223
26. Vinderup in real time 233
27. Variation in real time 245
28. Part IV. Tools and methodology
29. UNIDIA 259
30. Visualization, validation and seriation 269
31. Quantifying linguistic changes 285
32. Historical core vocabulary: Spring and/or anchor 295
33. Index of languages and terms 307
34. Index of subjects and terms 309