HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS 2011 -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Foreword and Acknowledgements -- Editors' introduction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Overview of presentations at ICHL 20 -- 3. Comments on papers selected for the present volume -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- I. Grammaticalization -- The role of historical research in building a model of Sign Language typology, variation, and change -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Historical research -- 3. Implications for Sign Language typology and variation -- 4. Summary -- References -- On the origin of Niger-Congo nominal classification -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The inherited noun class system of Niger-Congo -- 3. Alternative systems of nominal classification in Niger-Congo -- 4. Towards a model of Niger-Congo noun class genesis -- 5. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- References -- A closer look at subjectification in the grammaticalization of English modals: From the main verb mo -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data -- 3. Subjectification in the grammaticalization of must -- 4. Conclusion -- Sources for examples -- References -- Subjectivity encoding in Taiwanese Southern Min -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Third person singular pronoun and functional markers in TSM -- 3. The functions of the constructions hoo7 i1 and khit4hoo7 i1 -- 4. The encoding of subjectification via the form of grammaticalization in hoo7 i1 and khit4hoo7 i1 -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- II. Problems in historical comparison and reconstruction -- Emergence of the tone system in the Sanjiazi dialect of Manchu -- 1. Overview of the Manchu language -- 2. Accent and tones in Sanjiazi Manchu -- 3. How did the low tone emerge? -- 4. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- References -- Searching for undetected genetic links between the languages of South America -- 1. Introduction.

2. The Amerind hypothesis and the languages of South America -- 3. Extent and representation of South American language diversity -- 4. Recent advances in the reduction of lineages -- 5. Increased availability of data -- 6. The harvest of previous historical-comparative research -- 7. Focusing on undetected phylogenetic relations -- 8. Bilateral language comparison -- 9. Selecting the data -- 10. Preparing the data: Morphological deconstruction -- 11. Preparing the data: How to deal with semantic shift? -- 12. Dealing with lexical borrowing and diffusion -- 13. Final word -- References -- Reconstructing the category of "associated motion" in Tacanan languages (Amazonian Bolivia and Peru) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The category of associated motion: Definition and typological framework of analysis -- 3. Associated motion systems in Tacanan languages: A comparison -- 4. Associated motion systems in neighboring languages: Areal perspective -- 5. Reconstructing the history of AM systems in Tacanan languages -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- The mirage of apparent morphological correspondence: A case from Indo-European -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The PIE 3sg middle ending *-to -- 3. The PIE 1sg secondary middle ending *-h2eh2e -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- III. Historical development of morphosyntactic features -- Analogy as a source of suppletion -- 1. Interactions between sound change and analogy -- 2. Neogrammarians: Sound change introduces irregularity and analogy restores regularity -- 3. Suppletion in synchronic/typological perspective -- 4. Sources of suppletion -- 5. Analogy and paradigms -- 6. The semantics of suppletive lexemes and roots -- 7. Motivations and mechanisms -- 8. Frequency and memory -- 9. Conclusions -- Abbreviations -- References -- The rise and demise of possessive classifiers in Austronesian -- 1. Introduction.

2. The historical and geographic background -- 3. Complex systems of possessive constructions in Austronesian -- 4. Developments of the alienable-inalienable contrast and of further contrasts in alienable possessi -- 5. Complex systems of alienable possessive constructions elsewhere -- 6. Evidence from English -- 7. Reduction in possessive systems -- 8. Conclusions -- References -- Immediate-future readings of universal quantifier constructions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The construction -- 3. Origin of the construction and diachronic developments -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- The historical development and functional characteristics of the go-adjective sequence in English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous studies and remaining questions -- 3. Four types of go-adjective sequences -- 4. Concluding remarks -- References -- Recycling "junk": A case for exaptation as a response to breakdown -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Exaptation: Exclusively morphological? -- 3. From phonology to morphology (and syntax) -- 4. From syntax to discourse -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Sapirian 'drift' towards analyticity and long-term morphosyntactic change in Ancient Egyptian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The synthetic-analytic dimension in Ancient Egyptian historical morphology -- 3. Analytic drift and the profusion of auxiliary verb constructions -- 4. Language genesis and accelerated grammaticalization -- 5. Concluding remarks -- References -- Language index -- Index of terms.