Competing Models of Linguistic Change -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. The papers -- 2. Concluding remarks -- REFERENCES -- THE NON-LINEAR NATURE OF DIACHRONIC CHANGE -- 1. The Whiteheadian framework -- 2. Examples of non-linear diachronic change -- 3. Types of prehension involved in diachronic change -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX -- EXPLANATIONS, OR ...? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Within the frame of philosophy of science -- 3. Back to the chain movements -but still within a theoretical frame -- 4. Concluding remarks -- REFERENCES -- QUANTIFYING THE FUNCTIONAL LOAD OF PHONEMIC OPPOSITIONS, DISTINCTIVE FEATURES, AND SUPRASEGMENTALS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Example: Testing the Martinet Hypothesis in a Cantonese merger -- 3. Defining the functional load of binary oppositions -- 4. Defining the functional load of general phonological contrasts -- 5. Summary -- Acknowledgements -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX A -- APPENDIX B -- SYNCHRONY, DIACHRONY, AND EVOLUTION -- 0. Preamble -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The historical level -- 3. The general level: Change schemas and laws of change -- 4. Why the mechanisms of evolution do not explain language change -- 5. The universal level: on the changeability of languages -- 6. Conclusion: Explaining language change -- REFERENCES -- THE RELEVANCE OF AN EVOLUTIONARY MODEL TO HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The generalized analysis of selection (GAS) -- 3. Language change and language -- 4. Variation in language -- 5. The instantiation of GAS in language change -- 6. Relevance (i): Basic theoretical issues in language change -- 7. Relevance (ii): Biological concepts and techniques in historical linguistics -- 8. Relevance (iii): Mechanisms of language change -- 9. Relevance (iv): An integrated theory of language change - and of language -- REFERENCES.

GRAMMATICALIZATION OF INDIRECT OBJECT CROSS-REFERENCEIN SPANISH AS A CASE OF DRIFT -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Spanish Indirect Object and its Drift towards grammaticalization -- 3. IO cross-reference and head marking in the 20th century -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- THE ROLE OF FUNCTIONAL FACTORS IN LANGUAGE CHANGE -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The evolutionary scenario -- 3. Prepositional Dative Marking in Upper German -- 4. Prepositional Dative Marking in the light of the evolutionary scenario -- 5. Conclusion: The case for the concept of variant 'implementation' -- REFERENCES -- COMPUTATIONAL MODELING OF PROTOTYPICALITY IN LANGUAGE CHANGE -- 0. Preamble -- 1. Introduction -- 2. DATR based morphology -- 3. Morphological typology, variation, and change -- 4. The History of the German declension -- 5. Conclusion: 'Prototypicality' in linguistic change -- REFERENCES -- FROM PROPOSITIONAL SYNTAX IN OLD RUSSIAN TO SITUATIONAL SYNTAX IN MODERN RUSSIAN -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Old Russian System -- 3. The Modern Russian system -- 4. Conclusion: The role of aspect in the changes -- REFERENCES -- CONSTRUAL OPERATIONS IN SEMANTIC CHANGE -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Lexical variation and semantic change of some abstract nouns -- 3. Summary and conclusion -- REFERENCES -- CLITIC PLACEMENT IN OLD ANDMODERN SPANISH -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Clitic placement in Old Spanish -- 3. Dynamic Syntax analysis -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- GRAMMATICALISATION AS CONTENT REANALYSIS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The results of the changes: The Danish and the Swedish s-forms -- 3. Middle voice and passive voice -- 4. The lack of the s-mood in the past tense of strong verbs in Danish -- 5. A traditional account -- 6. The internal structure of the paradigm -- 7. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- ASPECT AND ANIMACY IN THE HISTORY OF RUSSIAN -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Animacy.

3. Aspect -- 4. Parallel Grammaticalization -- 5. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED FUNCTIONAL-PRAGMATIC THEORY OF LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGE CHANGE -- 1. Introduction: An integrated functional-pragmatic theory of language and language change -- 2. Towards understanding language and language change -- 3. Language change: Meta-grammar and meta-communication -- 4. A juridical, speech-act theoretical conception of language and language change -- 5. Conclusion and perspectivization -- Acknowledgements -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- CONTRIBUTORS -- The series CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY.