EXPLANATION IN HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Event structure accounting for the emerging periphrastic tenses and the passive voice in German -- 1. Setting the task -- 2. The early periphrastic passive: Old High German (OHG) -- 3. The periphrastic perfect -- 4. The periphrastic future in Middle High German with werden: a novelty and an outsider in Germanic -- 5. Dative passive -- 6. The Upper German "double periphrasis" -- 7. Generalization on the auxiliarization from full lexicals -- Notes -- References -- Historical explanation and historical linguistics -- Setting the current scene -- Logic of the situation -- Logic and the primacy of history -- Logic of action -- Re-enactment -- The semiotic perspective -- The collective aspect of action -- The universality of philology -- Notes -- References -- Elements of resistance in contact-induced language change -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background to the origin of Korlai Portuguese -- 2.1.1. Religion -- 2.1.2. Caste System -- 3. The subsequent development of Korlai -- 4. Aspectual distinctions in Korlai: an element of resistance to linguistic accommodation and homogeneity -- 4. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Articulatory variability, categorical perception, and the inevitability of sound change -- Notes -- References -- On the historical development of marked forms -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Markedness relations -- 2. The role of children and adults in language change -- 3. Sources of marked forms -- 3.1. Borrowing -- 3.2 Other sources of marked forms -- 3.2.1 Bleaching -- 3.2.2 Rapid speech -- 4. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- On misusing similarity -- Notes -- Reconstruction and syntactic typology: a plea for a different approach -- Notes -- References.

Diachronic explanation: Putting speakers back into the picture -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodological flaws tied to the failure to recognize the role of speakers -- 3. Still further evidence - what speakers do versus what linguists do -- 4. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Grammatical prototypes and competing motivations in a theory of linguistic change -- 1. Grammatical prototypes -- 2. Middle voice -- 3. Diachrony -- 4. Competing functional motivations governing change -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Understanding standards -- 1. Reference to women's occupations -- 2. Third-person clitic reference -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Rules and analogy -- The structuralist approach -- The generative approach -- Psycholinguistic approaches -- Analogy and productivity: an experiment -- METHOD -- RESULTS -- Factors affecting productivity -- DISCUSSION -- References -- The development of perfect reduplication in Indo-European -- 0. The problem -- 1. Typological evidence -- 2. Indo-European perfect reduplication -- Notes -- References -- A look at the data for a global etymology: *tik 'finger' -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The etymological basis for Proto-World *tik 'finger' -- 2. Additional data for *tik -- 3. Some methodological considerations -- 4. Another account of the data -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Author index -- Subject index -- Language index.