Historical Linguistics 1989: Papers from the 9th International Conference on Historical Linguistics Rutgers University, 14-18 August 1989 Book

	List of Participants
	The Natural Science Background to the Development of Historical-Comparative Linguistics	1
	The Lexicon and Linguistic Change	25
	The Semantic Development of can and could from Old English to the Present	37
	Latin System's energeia vs. Greek System's argia: A Problem of Linguistic Change Theory	47
	The Coalesence of the Participle and the Gerund/Gerundive: An Integrated Change	59
	Episode Boundary Markers in Old English Discourse	73
	On Proposed Universals of Grammatical Borrowing	91
	Patterns of Syncretism in Indo-European	111
	A Morphonological Rule for the Past Tense Formation of Irregular English Verbs	119
	Contamination in Morphological Change in Algonquian Languages	129
	The Rise of a New Conceptualization Pattern: Old English lippe, weler, tunge and mup with Reference to Linguistic Action	141
	Les resultats de ubi et unde dans l'histoire du francais (avec une consideration particuliere de l'ancien et du moyen francais)	155
	Aspectogenesis in South Dravidian: On the Origin of the 'Compound Continuative' KONTIRU	167
	Diachronic Syntax and Information Packaging: Remarks on Unstressed Pronouns in Old Spanish	187
	Determining the Synchronic Syntax of a Dead Language	211
	Open Syllable Lengthening in Middle English	221
	Syntactic Changes in Late Middle English	235
	Sur l'origine de l'emploi des formes toniques du pronom personnel regime avant les formes verbales non finies (infinitives ou participiales) en ancien francais	249
	Verb Serialization and Word Order: Evidence from Hittite	267
	The Role of Paradigms in the Phonetic Detail of Sound Change	283
	From Staging Strategies to Syntax: Clitic-Copying and Prepositional Direct Objects in Romanian	297
	The Inflectional Systems of Overseas Dutch	313
	Reconstructing the Unidentified	329
	Zur Geschichte der Distanzstellung im Deutschen: Die Urkunden des 13. Jahrhundens	349
	Double Modals in Early English	363
	The Role of Women in Linguistic Change	371
	Early Diphthongization of Palatalized West Germanic [u:]: The Spelling uy in Middle Dutch	389
	A Moraic Model of the Diachronic Development of Long and Falling Diphthongs in Friulian	417
	Did "Aktionsart" Ever "Compensate" Verbal Aspect in Old and Middle French?	429
	Drift as an Organic Outcome of Type	449
	An African-American Linguistic Enclave: Tense and Aspect in Liberian Settler English	457
	Linking Changes in Icelandic	467
	Coping with Partial Information in Historical Linguistics	485
	The Effects of the Yod on the Vocalic and Consonantal Systems: From Latin to Spanish	497
	Index of Languages (Language Families, Dialects)	525
	Index of Names	529