Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. List of participants xiii
5. Conference programme xix
6. Divergence and convergence in linguistic evolution 1
7. Areal linguistics and its implications for historical linguistics 25
8. Paradigm economy in Latin nouns 57
9. Ablaut 71
10. An analysis and synthesis in sound change 83
11. On the diachrony of subtractive poerations 105
12. Did old English have a middle voice? 129
13. The vowel /a:/ in English 139
14. Framing the linguistic actions scene in Old and Present-day English 149
15. Lexical restructuring 171
16. Theories of sound change fail if they try predict too much 183
17. Chance and necessity in diachronic syntax — word order typologies and the position of modern Persian relative clauses 199
18. Umlaut as a harmony process 217
19. Divergent patterns of word prder in contemporary French 235
20. Articulatory modes and typological universals 251
21. Velar segments in Old English and Old Irish 267
22. On the semasiologization of phonological rules 281
23. Another explanation for the development of s before l in Norwegian 291
24. Wilhelm Scherer’s Zur geschichte der deutschen Sprache 301
25. Proto-Indo-European consonantism 313
26. The place of Saussure’s Memoire in the development of historical linguistics 323
27. Indo-European numerals and the sexagesimal system 347
28. Absolute versus relative comparison 353
29. Diachronic morphologization 365
30. For a diachrony-in-synchrony analysis 395
31. On the possible clusters of mb, nd, and ŋ g in Proto- Japanese 409
32. Are there dysfunctional changes? 427
33. The Indo-European origin of the Balti Slavic — ē — and — a - preterite 441
34. Variability in word formation patterns and productivity in the American South 467
35. Rule ordering and the dynamics of diatopic language variation 489
36. Le développement d’un auxiliaire modal en yiddish 499
37. Confrontation and association 515
38. The bifurcation theory of the Germanic and German consonant shifts 527
39. Prosodic structures and the development of French schwa 549
40. On the origins and developments of American English 561
41. Quelques problèmes des recherche étymologiques sur les emprunts lexicaux 571
42. Morphologische Natürlichkeit und morphologischer Wandel. Zur vorhersagbarkeit von sprachveranderüngen 587
43. Anders Ahlqvist 601
44. Index of languages 607
45. Index of names 612