Variation and change in the Montferrand Account-books (1259-1367)

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Message from the President 1
4. Center for Corpus-based Linguistics and Language Education 3
5. Introduction 7
6. The Atlas Linguarum Europae: A diachronic analysis of its data 21
7. Variationism and underuse statistics in the analysis of the development of relative clauses in German 37
8. Variation and change in the Montferrand Account-books (1259-1367) 59
9. Cognitive aspects of language evolution and language change: The example of French historical texts 75
10. The importance of diasystematic parameters in studying the history of French 91
11. The reorganisation of mood in the epistemic subsystem – The case of French belief predicates in diachronic dynamics 111
12. French liaison in the 18th Century – Analysis of Gile Vaudelin's texts 133
13. Issues in the typographic representation of medieval primary sources 153
14. An analysis of the misuse of the participle in old Russian texts 175
15. A preliminary analysis of Arabic derived verbs in the Leeds Quran Corpus – With special reference to Stem III (CaaCaC) 189
16. On the narrow and open " e " contrast in Santali 203
17. The classification of Apabhramśa – A corpus-based approach of the study of Middle Indo-Aryan 223
18. Changes in the meaning and construction of Polysemous words: The case of mieru and mirareru 243
19. Language change from the viewpoint of distribution patterns of standard Japanese forms 265
20. Index of proper nouns 285
21. Index of subjects 289
22. Contributors 293