Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Preface V
3. Table of contents VII
4. List of participants XI
5. Morphological change: towards a typology 1
6. On the development of morphology from syntax 51
7. The relevance of productivity in a synchronic description of word formation 71
8. Morphology and word order reconstruction: problems and prospects 83
9. The diachrony of the gender systems in English and Dutch 97
10. Some notes on Byelorussian historical morphology 113
11. Case, word order and coding in a historical linguistic perspective 127
12. The marking of definiteness in Romance 141
13. Child morphology and morphophonemic change 157
14. The evolution of genitive-accusative animate and personal nouns in Slavic dialects 189
15. Zero in morphology: a means of making up for phonological losses? 213
16. Paradigm coherence and the conditioning of sound change: Yiddish 'schwa-deletion' again 251
17. The place of morphology in a universal cybernetic theory of language change 273
18. Laws of analogy 283
19. Encoding grammatical relations: acceptable and unacceptable non-distinctness 289
20. The functional development of the verbal suffix +esc+ in Romance 327
21. Paradigmatic displacement 349
22. Morphological instability, with and without language contact 359
23. Problems of morphology seen from the structuralist and functionalist point of view 373
24. Words versus morphemes in morphological change: the case of Italian -iamo 383
25. On gender change in linguistic borrowing (Old English) 399
26. Morphological signalling of selection properties: transitiveness in Tocharian Β and A verbs 421
27. Ways of morphologizing phonological rules 443
28. Index of terms 463
29. Index of languages 465
30. Index of names 470