Corpus-based Analysis and Diachronic Linguistics -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Contents -- Message from the President -- Center for Corpus-based Linguistics and Language Education -- Introduction -- 1. From dichotomy to hybrid dynamic synchrony -- 2. Realia or Fictio in written documents -- 3. Ongoing changes in dynamic synchrony -- 4. Linguistic atlas and diachronic linguistics -- 5. Corpus-based analysis and diachronic linguistics -- References -- The Atlas Linguarum Europae: A Diachronic Analysis of Its Data -- 1. A short presentation of the project -- 2. Presentation of a typological map -- 3. Loanword research -- 4. Etymological research: Faithfulness to reconstructed roots -- 5. Motivational research -- References -- Variationism and Underuse Statistics in the Analysis of the Development of Relative Clauses in German -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Variation and variationism -- 3. Data and corpus architecture -- 4. Comparing quantities: under and overuse of corpus measurements -- 5. Examining underuse close up: relative clauses -- 5.1. Normalization -- 5.2. Relativizers: variable and variants -- 5.3. Expansion of relative clauses? -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Corpus Editions -- Variation and Change in the Montferrand Account-books (1259-1367) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Montferrand corpus -- 3. Plotting linguistic variation and change in the Montferrand corpus -- 3.1. The « Loceme » tool designed by C. Mansfi eld (http://eserve.org.uk/loceme/) -- 3.2. Idiolectal (sporadic) features -- 4. Lexical change -- 5. Syntactic change -- 6. Morphological change -- 6.1. Preterite: endings of the 4th person -- 6.2. Strong perfects: 3rd and 6th person endings -- 7. Phonetic change -- 7.1. Local (Auvergnat) features -- 8. Conclusion -- References.

Cognitive Aspects of Language Evolution and Language Change: The Example of French Historical Texts -- 1. A text linguistic approach -- 2. The particular evolution of Old French Texts: Telling the truth requires prose -- 3. The first historical texts in Old French deal with the Fourth Crusade -- 4. The structure of romances in verse -- 5. A comparison between Chrétien (Perceval) and the two historians -- 6. Clause linking -- 7. First thesis appears plausible -- 8. What about the second thesis? -- References -- The Importance of Diasystematic Parameters in Studying the History of French -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The model of change -- 3. Research questions and methodology -- 4. The creation of the composed past -- 4.1. Phase 1-phase 2 transition, first reanalysis -- 4.2. Phase 2-phase 3 transition, second reanalysis -- 4.3. Phase 3-phase 4 transition, third reanalysis -- 4.4. Summing up section 4 -- 5. Discussion of the conflicting evidence from old French texts -- 5.1. Tense switching -- 5.2. Confl icting analyses of tense switching -- 5.3. Summing up section 5 -- 6. The relevance of the diasystematic parameters -- 6.1. Diasystems -- 6.2. Test of the actualisation theory and of the diasystematic parameters -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- The Reorganisation of Mood in the Epistemic Subsystem-The Case of French Belief Predicates in Diachronic Dynamics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Mood and modality in the doxastic domain -- 2.1. Some basic notions and their relationship -- 2.2. The inherent structure of the 'epistemic domain' -- 2.3. Mood selection of belief predicates in modern French -- 3. A case study: the development of mood selection of 'cuidier' -- 3.1. Mood selection in Old French and the New Amsterdam Corpus: general tendencies -- 3.2. Mood selection in Old French and the New Amsterdam Corpus: specific tendencies.

3.3. The basic principles of mood selection in the doxastic domain -- 3.4. The development of 'cuidier' in Middle and 16th century French -- 3.5. Some remarks on the competing verb 'croire' -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- French Liaison in the 18th Century - Analysis of Gile Vaudelin's Texts - -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Gile Vaudelin -- 3. Analysis of NM and IC -- 3.1. Verbs -- 3.2. Pronouns -- 3.3. Articles, possessive adjectives -- 3.4. Prepositions -- 3.5. Adjectives, adverbs -- 3.6. Conjunctives, participles -- 3.7. Numerals -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Issues in the Typographic Representation of Medieval Primary Sources -- 1. Some general assumptions -- 2. Letters, characters, glyphs and graphs -- 3. Graphemes, allography and writing systems -- 4. Orthography vs. alphabet -- 5. Transcription vs. transliteration -- 6. The typographic representation of medieval primary sources -- 7. To sum up -- Addendum -- References -- An Analysis of the Misuse of the Participle in Old Russian Texts -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Old Church Slavonic and Old Russian -- 1.2. Participles in OCS -- 1.3. The Defi nition of "misuse" -- 2. Correct and incorrect usages of participles in OCS literature -- 2.1. The norm of the OCS participle -- 2.2. Misuse of the participle -- 3. Hypotheses and materials -- 3.1. Hypotheses -- 3.2. Material -- 4. Quantitative results and verification of hypotheses -- 4.1. Verification of HYPOTHESIS 1 -- 4.2. Verification of HYPOTHESIS 2' -- 5. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Appendix: Table of transliteration -- References -- A Preliminary Analysis of Arabic Derived Verbs in the Leeds Quran Corpus - With Special Reference to Stem III (CaaCaC) -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Productivity -- 1.2. Semi-productive systems in classical Arabic -- 2. Some hypotheses -- 2.1. Word-based morphology as applied to Semitic.

2.2 Valence theory of the derived verbs -- 2.3. Historical source of stem III -- 3. Testing the hypotheses against the corpus-data -- References -- On the Narrow and Open "e" Contrast in Santali -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Brief introduction to Santali -- 1.2. Varieties in Santali vowels in the earlier works -- 2. Analysis of Bodding's Santal dictionary -- 2.1. Santali corpus project -- 2.2. Structure of the dictionary -- 2.3. Santali vowel notation in BSD -- 2.4. Bodding's analysis of the vowels -- 3. Analysis of Santali vowels -- 3.1. Methods of finding minimal pairs -- 3.2. Examinations of "e1" and "e2" -- 3.3. Results and analysis -- 4. Tentative conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- The Classification of Apabhraṃśa―A Corpus-based Approach of the Study of Middle Indo-Aryan― -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The traditional classification -- 2.1. A classification (Nāgara, Upanāgara, Vrācaḍa) by the Medieval Grammarians -- 2.2. Jacobi's classification (Northern and Gurjara Apabhraṃśa) -- 2.3. The classification (Western, Southern, and Eastern) of Tagare -- 2.4. The validity of the various classifications -- 3. Corpus analysis -- 3.1. The texts used for the analysis -- 3.2. Matters of research -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Changes in the Meaning and Construction of Polysemous Words: The Case of mieru and mirareru -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical background -- 2.1. How should polysemy be described? -- 2.2. What is the 'meaning-construction type?' -- 3. Corpus data -- 4. Morphological features and case structures of mieru and mirareru -- 5. Classification of meaning-construction types -- 5.1. Classification of mieru -- 5.2. Classification of mirareru -- 6. Frequency of each meaning-construction type -- 7. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- References -- Language Change from the Viewpoint of Distribution Patterns of Standard Japanese Forms.

1. Objective of the study -- 2. Research data -- 2.1. Grammar Atlas of Japanese Dialects (GAJ) -- 2.2. Glottogram survey in the Tohoku and Hokkaido region (the TH survey) -- 3. The standardization of Japanese -- 4. The five stages of the standardization -- 4.1. First stage (until the fi rst half of the Edo Era) -- 4.2. Second stage (from the latter half of the Edo Era to the early years of the Meiji Era) -- 4.3. Third stage (from the mid-Meiji Era to the mid-Showa Era) -- 4.4. Fourth stage (the latter half of the Showa Era to the present) -- 4.5. Fifth stage (the present) -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Index of Proper Nouns -- Names -- Index of Subjects -- Contributors.