Index of subjects

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. The phonetic phenomena connected with the strengthening and weakening of sonants in Bulgarian and Macedonian dialects 1
5. Parasite consonants: A homographic clash 7
6. The nature of Old English dialect distributions, mainly as exhibited in charter boundaries 43
7. Geographical and linguistic distance in thirteenth-century Dutch 137
8. Copyist behavior: Historical linguistics and text filiation 153
9. Contractions of preposition and plural article without s (e. g. a + les > au) in Old French, a completely overlooked problem of paradigm formation with implications for the theory of language change 175
10. Slavonic Pomerania in the past: Its links with the neighboring areas and its internal division 217
11. New methods in textual criticism: The case of the Charroi de Nîmes 225
12. "Sociolectalization" as a feature in different versions of medieval drama 277
13. Realizations of the definite article in dialectal English and how and when they originated 295
14. A hypothesis on the structure of macaronic business writing 309
15. Index of subjects 323
16. Index of languages and dialects 325
17. Index of names 327