Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Resurrecting rhymes, reasons and (no) rhotics 5
5. Diachronic phonology with Contrastive Hierarchy Theory 20
6. The life cycle of phonological patterns explains drift in sound change 35
7. The diachronic typology of retroflex vowels 50
8. Diachronic shifts among sound ideophones 62
9. The classification of the Plains Algonquian languages 79
10. Modelling combined linguistic and non-linguistic evidence in language reconstruction 94
11. Dissimilatory constraints discriminate between variants in analogical change 110
12. Patterns of suppletion in inflection revisited 128
13. Differential object marking in early Italo-Romance and old Sardinian 150
14. Semantic factors in case loss 166
15. Morphosyntactic borrowing in closely related varieties 184
16. Nominal privative suffixes as a diachronic source of verbal negative markers 198
17. The emergence of oblique subjects 215
18. Grammaticalization of sentence adverbs and modal particles revisited 232
19. A discourse analysis of left-dislocation in Old English 249
20. The semantics of word borrowing in late medieval English 263
21. Approximative adverbs in modern and pre-modern languages 279
22. The history of numerals as a history of East African languages 294
23. Language index 307
24. Subject index 309