Table Of Contents:
Contributors addresses ix
Preface xi

How far has far from become grammaticalized? 1(12)

Minoji Akimoto

Recent advances in the reconstruction of the Proto-Munda verb 13(18)

Gregory D.S. Anderson

Norman H. Zide

Multivariable Reanalysis and phonological split 31(18)

Janice M. Aski

Are Old English conjunct clauses really verb-final? 49(14)

Kristin Bech

Alternation according to person in Italo-Romance 63(12)

Delia Bentley

Thorhallur Eythorsson

On ablaut and aspect in the history of Aramaic 75(14)

Vit Bubenik

Language change and the phonological lexicon of Korean 89(16)

Young-mee Y. Cho

Animals and vegetables, Uto-Aztecan noun derivation, semantic classification, and cultural history 105(14)

Karen Dakin

Gradience and linguistic change 119(26)

David Denison

Distinctive vowel length in Old French: Evidence and implications 145(12)

Randall Gess

Remains of a submerged continent: Preaspiration in the languages of Northwest Europe 157(18)

Gunnar Olafur Hansson

Rapid change among expletive polarity items 175(12)

Jacob Hoeksema

The conversational factor in language change: From prenominal to postnominal demonstratives 187(20)

Maria M. Manoliu

On the origin of the Portuguese inflected infinitive: A new perspective on an enduring debate 207(16)

Ana Maria Martins

Innovation of the indirect reflexive in Old French 223(18)

D. Gary Miller

Lexical forces shaping the evolution of grammar 241(12)

Marianne Mithun

Why ``me'' and ``thee''? 253(24)

Johanna Nichols

The English s-genitive: Animacy, topicality, and possessive relationship in a diachronic perspective 277(16)

Anette Rosenbach

Default inheritance hierarchies and the evolution of inflectional classes 293(16)

Gregory Stump

On the eve of a new paradigm: The current challenges to comparative linguistics in a Kuhnian perspective 309(16)

Marie-Lucie Tarpent

Modeling koineization 325(12)

Donald N. Tuten

Coreference in the Popolocan languages 337(14)

Annette Veerman-Leichsenring

Atlantis Semitica: Structural contact features in Celtic and English 351(20)

Theo Vennemann
Index of languages and language families 371(4)
Index of names 375
Index of subjects