Historical Linguistics 1993: Selected Papers from the 11th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Los Angeles, 16-20 August 1993 Book

	Regrammaticalization and degrammaticalization of the inchoative suffix	1
	Light shed on problems of Turkic conjugation: the Northeast Turkic progressive present in -Ipca(t) and the 'mixed' conjugation	9
	On the history of relative clauses in French and some of its dialects	19
	Functional renewal	33
	Passives and ergatives in Middle Indo-Aryan	49
	Evidence of grammaticalization in Pennsylvania German	59
	Old forms for new concepts: the recategorization of possessive duplications in Mexican Spanish	77
	On subjectification in modal adverbs	93
	Gender, class, and prestige in the spread of an allophonic rule	105
	Reconstruction of the Proto-Romance syllable	117
	The development of word-final /b/ in English	133
	Areal linguistics in prehistory: evidence from Indo-European aspect	143
	The later stages in the development of the definite article: evidence from French	159
	Parameters underlying the organization of medieval Russian texts	177
	What the choice of the overt nominalizer NO did to Modern Japanese syntax and semantics	191
	On categorial evolution: a case study in Spanish possessives	205
	Regression and creation in the double accusative in Ancient Greek	217
	Morphological reanalysis and typology: the case of the German r-plural and why English did not develop it	227
	On the grammaticization of the definite article SE in spoken Finnish	239
	Identifying an Old French text with the help of dialect analysis	251
	Prototypicality and agenthood in Indo-European	259
	Genetic congruence versus areal convergence: the misfortune of Latin AD in Romanian	269
	On the fate of adjectival declension in Overseas Dutch (with some notes on the history of Dutch)	283
	Clitic placement from Old to Modern European Portuguese	295
	A diachronic view of prepositional verbs of emotion in Spanish	309
	Phonologically based morphological change: high-vowel deletion and paradigmatic implications in Old English	323
	Diachronically stable structural features	337
	The diachronic distribution of bare and prepositional infinitives in English	357
	Object shift in Old Spanish: a minimalist theory approach	371
	Lexical diffusion as a guide to scribal intent: a comparison of ME <<eo>> and <<e>> spellings in the Peterborough Chronicle and the Ormulum	379
	Verb-seconding in Old English	387
	The thematic structure of the main clause in Old French, OR versus SI	401
	On different ways of optimizing the sound shape of words	421
	Exaptation and grammaticalization	433
	Authors' Addresses	447
	Index of Names	449
	Index of Languages	457