Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. Phonology
5. A Phonological motivation behind the diatonic stress shift in Modern English 3
6. Vowel reduction in verbs in King Alfred’s Pastoral Care 19
7. The development of early Middle English ō 41
8. The diachronic development of stød and tonal accent in North Germanic 53
9. The evolution of the (alveolo)palatal lateral consonant in Spanish and Portuguese 69
10. Diachronic typology
11. Evaluating prehistoric and early historic linguistic contacts 89
12. Patterns in the diffusion of nomenclature systems 109
13. Morphology
14. Morphological evidence for the paradigmatic status of infinitives in French and Occitan 135
15. Constructional change at the interface of cognition, culture, and language use 155
16. Morphosyntax
17. Stages in deflexion and the Norwegian dative 179
18. Differential Object Marking in Old Japanese 195
19. The grammaticalization of progressive constructions with a focus on the English progressive 213
20. Hate and anger, love and desire 233
21. The argument indexing of early Austronesian verbs 257
22. The syntax of mood constructions in Old Japanese 281
23. Medieval Sardinian 303
24. Index 325