Perspectives on language structure and language change

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Perspectives on language structure and language change 1
5. Part I. On the theory of language change
6. Andersen (1973) and dichotomies of change 13
7. Induction and tradition 35
8. Approaching the typology and diachrony of morphological reversals 81
9. Deconstructing markedness in sound change typology 107
10. Part II. Indexicality
11. Diachronic morphology, indexical function and a critique of the morphome analysis 125
12. Word order as grammaticalised semiotic systems 151
13. Part III. Problems of reanalysis
14. Anticausative and passive in Vedic 181
15. Grammaticalization and degrammati(calizati)on in the development of the Iranian verb system 193
16. Aspects of grammaticalization and reanalysis in the voice domain in the transition from Latin to early Italo-Romance 205
17. From preverbal to postverbal in the early history of Japanese 233
18. Reanalysis in the Russian past tense 253
19. From a single lexical unit to multiple grammatical paradigms 271
20. Morphosyntactic reanalysis in Australian languages 295
21. Definiteness in Germanic and Balto-Slavic 311
22. Part IV. Actualization
23. Diatopy and frequency as indicators of spread 327
24. Suppletion or illusion? 345
25. Part V. Language change and diachronic typology in Balto-Slavic
26. A complicated relationship 359
27. Name-calling 381
28. Changes of tense and modality in Late Mediaeval Slovene 395
29. Index 411