Preface to the paperback edition -- Introduction -- Analogy as optimization: 'exceptions' to Sievers' Law in Gothic -- Analogical levelling of vowel length in West Germanic -- Hierarchical restructuring in the creation of verbal morphology in Bengali and Germanic: Evidence from phonology -- Constraints on schwa apocope in Middle High German -- Morphological re-activation and phonological alternations: Evidence for voiceless restructuring in German -- Inflectional system and markedness -- On the origin and development of the Central Franconian tone contrast -- The origin of Danish stød -- Prosodic variation in 'Lutgart' -- The revenge of the uneven trochee: Latin main stress, metrical constituency, stress-related phenomena and OT -- On the (non-)existence of High Vowel Deletion -- Index of subjects -- Index of names -- Index of languages.