Prelim pages

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword & Acknowledgements vii
4. Editors’ introduction ix
5. Part I. General and specific issues of language change
6. Competing reinforcements 3
7. On the reconstruction of experiential constructions in (Late) Proto-Indo-European 31
8. Criteria for differentiating inherent and contact-induced changes in language reconstruction 49
9. Misparsing and syntactic reanalysis 69
10. How different is prototype change? 89
11. The syntactic reconstruction of alignment and word order 107
12. Part II. Linguistic variation and change in Germanic
13. The Dutch-Afrikaans participial prefix ge- 131
14. Diachronic changes in long-distance dependencies 155
15. Changes in the use of the Frisian quantifiers ea/oait “ever” between 1250 and 1800 171
16. On the development of the perfect (participle) 191
17. OV and V-to-I in the history of Swedish 211
18. Ethnicity as an independent factor of language variation across space 231
19. The sociolinguistics of spelling 253
20. Part III. Linguistic variation and change in Greek
21. Dative loss and its replacement in the history of Greek 277
22. Word order variation in New Testament Greek wh-questions 293
23. Part IV. Linguistic change in Romance
24. The morphological evolution of infinitive, future and conditional forms in Occitan 317
25. The evolution of the encoding of direction in the history of French 333
26. Velle -type prohibitions in Latin 355
27. The use and development of habere + infinitive in Latin 373
28. Index 399