Diachronic explanation

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Event structure accounting for the emerging periphrastic tenses and the passive voice in German 1
5. Historical explanation and historical linguistics 17
6. Elements of resistance in contact-induced language change 41
7. Articulatory variability, categorical perception, and the inevitability of sound change 59
8. On the historical development of marked forms 77
9. On misusing similarity 95
10. Reconstruction and syntactic typology 105
11. Diachronic explanation 123
12. Grammatical prototypes and competing motivations in a theory of linguistic change 145
13. Understanding standards 167
14. Rules and analogy 179
15. The development of perfect reduplication in Indo-European 193
16. A look at the data for a global etymology 207
17. Author index 229
18. Subject index 233
19. Language index 237