Thematic List of Contents xiii
Editors xvii
Contributors xix
Preface xxix
Volume I
Diachronic Linguistics: An Overview 1
Joseph Salmons
Abruptness in Language Change 19
Graeme Trousdale
Acoustic-Perceptual Factors in the Actuation of Sound Change 37
James Kirby and Jonathan Harrington
Acquisition and Learnability 75
Ailis Cournane
Alignment Change 95
Edith Aldridge
Analogy and Extension 123
David Fertig
Approaches to the Comparative Linguistics of Sign Languages 143
Justin M. Power and Keiko Sagara
Argument Structure 165
Leonid Kulikov
Aspectual Changes: Aktionsart versus Perfectivity 199
Amalia Moser
Assimilation and Dissimilation Processes in Sound Change 225
Joachim Kokkelmans and Eirini Apostolopoulou
At the Interfaces: Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Sources of Phonological Change 251
Holly Kennard and Aditi Lahiri
Autonomy of Morphology: Paradigmatic Structure in Diachrony 275
Borja Herce
(Basic) Word Order 293
Lieven Danckaert
Borrowing of Linguistic Rules 317
Metin Bägr¿ac¿k
Causality at the Interfaces: Non-Syntactic Triggers of Syntactic Change 343
Tara Struik
Chain Shifts 369
Monica Nesbitt and Samson Lotven
Change in Contrastive Hierarchies 391
Will Oxford
Changes across the Lifespan 409
Isabelle Buchstaller and James Grama
Changes from Below and from Above 437
Lauren Hall-Lew
Changing Patterns of Deixis in the Nominal Domain 455
Alexandra Simonenko
Changing Patterns of Deixis in the Verbal Domain 485
Mario Squartini
Code-Switching 505
Ad Backus
Comparative Method and Comparative Reconstruction 527
Koen Bostoen and Martine Robbeets
Complex Predicate Formation 551
Veronika Heged¿us
Compounding 571
Angela Ralli
Computational Models of Semantic Change 595
Nina Tahmasebi, Andrey Kutuzov, Haim Dubossarsky, and Mario Giulianelli
Conditioning 629
Pavel Iosad
Volume II
Configurationality: Changing Patterns of Morphology and Syntax 657
Adam Ledgeway
Contact and Borrowing 691
Anthony Grant
Convergence and Linguistic Areas 713
Victor A. Friedman and Brian D. Joseph
Counting Systems 729
Brigitte L.M. Bauer
Cyclicity 755
John W.W. Powell and Elly van Gelderen
(De)Grammaticalization 783
Muriel Norde
Deletion (aphaeresis, syncope, apocope) 813
Daniel Recasens
Derivation 835
Carola Trips and Charles Yang
Diachronic Creole Syntax: Lessons from Cabo Verdean, Haitian, and Sranan 863
Marlyse Baptista and Ariana Bancu
Diachronic Patterns of Affixation 889
Judith Meinschaefer
Diachronic Typological Universals 917
Shelece Easterday
Diachrony and the Bases of Synchronic Regularity 953
Stephen R. Anderson
Diachrony of Morphological Strategies 973
Ivan Igartua
Dialectology 1001
Tommaso Balsemin, Emanuela Sanfelici, and Cecilia Poletto
Directionality 1033
Katalin E. Kiss
Economy 1061
Anna Roussou
Ellipsis 1083
Remus Gergel and Sonia Cyrino
The Emergence of Determiners across Time 1115
Anne Carlier
Endogeny and Exogeny 1169
Marianne Mithun
Evolution of the Structural Encoding of Discourse Functions 1195
Augustin Speyer
Exaptation and Related Processes of Language Change 1223
Ilse Wischer
Family Tree Model 1245
Thomas Pellard, Robin J. Ryder, and Guillaume Jacques
Folk Etymology and Contamination 1279
Martin Maiden
Frequency 1299
Dirk Pijpops and Eva Zehentner
Genre Variation and Change across Registers of Writing 1327
Irma Taavitsainen, Matylda W¿odarczyk, and Jukka Tyrkko
Grammar Competition and Variational Learning 1355
Joel Wallenberg, Henri Kauhanen, George Walkden, and Caroline Heycock
Volume III
Hypothetical Routes from Parataxis to Hypotaxis 1387
Katrin Axel-Tober and Helmut Weis
Illocutionary Force: Encoding Utterance Meaning and Function through Time 1415
Roland Hinterholzl and Nicola Munaro
Indirect Language Contact and Pragmatic Borrowing 1443
Elizabeth Peterson
Inertia and Anti-Inertia Theories of Syntactic Change 1461
Chris H. Reintges
Inflectional Change and Morphological Theory 1493
Nigel Vincent
Information Structure in Diachronic Change 1511
Marco Coniglio and Esther Rinke
Insertion (prosthesis, epenthesis) 1541
Nancy Hall
On Language Acquisition as the Locus of Reanalysis 1567
Esther Rinke, Jurgen M. Meisel, and Georg A. Kaiser
Language Shift, Obsolescence, and Death 1591
Joshua R. Brown and Michael T. Putnam
Lenition and Fortition: Environments, Processes, and Representations 1609
Andras Cser
Lexical Change and Stability 1631
Steven N. Dworkin and Philip Durkin
Lexical Frequency and Diffusion 1649
Vsevolod Kapatsinski
Lexicalization 1673
Alain Peyraube
Life Cycle of Phonological Processes 1693
Michael Ramsammy
Loss and Leveling 1717
Joshua Bousquette
Markedness, Naturalness, and Complexity 1739
Nikolaus Ritt
Mechanisms of Change in Lexical Semantics 1761
Karlien Franco
Mergers and Splits 1781
Sarah Babinski
Metathesis 1803
Ander Egurtzegi
Mixed Languages 1827
Jesse Stewart
Modality and Mood 1855
Francesca Dell'Oro
Morphing Creole Languages 1887
Fabiola Henri and Jose Carlos Antonio Perez Vargas
Morphological Agreement 1913
Paolo Milizia
Morphological Reanalysis: Recycling Old Form to New Function 1939
Laura A. Janda
Morphological Universals and Tendencies 1963
Dunstan Brown
Morphologization (from phonology and syntax) and Demorphologization 1991
Livio Gaeta
Morphology and Syntax in Competition: The Place of Inflectional Periphrasis 2021
Andrew Spencer and Gergana Popova
Negation: Diachronic Developments 2045
M.Teresa Espinal and Susagna Tubau
Non-Morphological Sources and Triggers of Morphological Change 2077
Ekaterina Georgieva and Irina Burukina
Volume IV
Onomasiological Variation: How We Name Extralinguistic Reality 2095
Jesus Fernandez Dominguez
The Penthouse Principle Revisited 2115
Sam Wolfe
Periodization 2147
John Charles Smith
Phonological Constraints and Conditioning in Diachronic Morphology 2167
Yuni Kim and Mary Paster
Phonological Universals in Sound Change 2189
David Natvig
Pragmatic Strengthening and Conventionalized Implicature 2211
Regine Eckardt
Processing Efficiency 2231
Richard Futrell
Productivity 2265
Johanna Barðdal, Renata Enghels, Quentin Feltgen, Sven Van Hulle, and Peter Lauwers
Propagation of Change: Computational Models 2293
Henri Kauhanen
Prosodic Changes and Metrical Restructuring: Syllables, Feet, and Prosodic Templates 2317
Laura Catharine Smith
Proto-Languages 2351
Gerd Carling and Filip Larsson
Quantification 2379
Tamas Halm
Reanalysis and Restructuring 2417
Helmut Weis
Reconstruction without Broad Comparison: Internal Reconstruction 2437
Jose Ignacio Hualde
Regularity and Exceptions 2459
Peter Rebrus
Relative Clauses 2489
Eva Dekany
Revisiting the Five Foundational Problems of Weinreich, Labov, and Herzog (1968) 2523
Anne Breitbarth
Rise and Fall of Case: When Syntax Meets Morphology 2549
Nikolaos Lavidas and Eleni Plakoutsi
Salience 2589
Peter Racz
Semantic Universals 2605
Chiara Gianollo
Semasiological Variation 2629
Dirk Geeraerts
Social Conditioning, Differentiation, and Linguistic Valuation 2645
Jon Forrest
Sociocultural Drivers of Lexical Innovation 2667
Terttu Nevalainen and Tanja Saily
Sociolinguistic Typology: Complexification and Simplification 2687
Christian Bentz and Annemarie Verkerk
Sources of Nominal Number Markers 2717
Patricia Cabredo Hofherr
Volume V
Standardization 2755
Gijsbert Rutten
Subgrouping 2777
Daniel Kaufman
Subjectification and Intersubjectification 2813
Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Katsunobu Izutsu, and Mitsuko Narita Izutsu
Suppletion 2837
Ljuba Veselinova
Syncretism 2889
Louise Esher
Syntactic Changes in Nominal Agreement 2913
Giampaolo Salvi
Syntactic Changes in Verbal Agreement 2945
Charlotte Hemmings, Hannah Gibson, and Lutz Marten
Syntactic Methods for Language Phylogenies 2971
Cristina Guardiano and Giuseppe Longobardi
Syntactic Reanalysis 3011
Marieke Meelen
Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic Changes in Meaning 3037
Josh Phillips and Martin Fuchs
Tense, Aspect, and Mood Systems 3059
Barbara Meisterernst
Tonogenesis and the Evolution of Tone Systems 3093
Marc Brunelle and James Kirby
Transmission and Diffusion of Syntactic Change 3129
David Willis
Transparency 3157
Eric Haeberli
Typology of Prosodic Organization 3177
Martin Kummel
Uniformitarianism 3195
Claire Bowern
Variation and Change in Language Revitalization 3217
Itxaso Rodriguez-Ordonez and Jonathan R. Kasstan
Voice Alternations in Diachrony 3239
Laura Grestenberger and Iris Tanza-Kamil
Wave Model 3289
Jamin Pelkey and Siva Kalyan
Word-Order Universals: A Formal Approach 3315
Ian Roberts
Working with Dead Languages 3337
James Clackson and Nathan W. Hill
Working with Language Isolates 3353
Patience Epps and Hein van der Voort
Writing Systems 3377
William G. Boltz
Index 3401
