HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS 1993 -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- PREFACE -- Table of contents -- REGRAMMATICALIZATION AND DEGRAMMATICALIZATION OF THE INCHOATIVE SUFFIX -- REFERENCES -- LIGHT SHED ON PROBLEMS OF TURKIC CONJUGATION:THE NORTHEAST TURKIC PROGRESSIVE PRESENT IN-Ipča(t)AND THE 'MIXED' CONJUGATION -- REFERENCES -- ON THE HISTORY OF RELATIVE CLAUSES IN FRENCHAND SOME OF ITS DIALECTS -- 0 Introduction -- 1.0 Relative clause patterns in the history of French -- 2 Support for this analysis: other Romance dialects -- 3 Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- FUNCTIONAL RENEWAL -- 1 Theoretical background -- 2 The HAVE + PP constructions -- 3 Inversions in English -- 4 Further cases -- 5 Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- PASSIVES AND ERGATIVES IN MIDDLE INDO-ARYAN -- 1 Theories of the origin of the ergative in Indo-Aryan languages -- 2 Typological changes in Middle Indo-Aryan -- 3 Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- EVIDENCE OFGRAMMATICALIZATION IN PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Grammaticalization -from lexicon to grammar -- 3 Grammaticalization -from discourse to grammar -- 4 Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- OLD FORMS FOR NEW CONCEPTS: THE RECATEGORIZATION OF POSSESSIVE DUPLICATIONSIN MEXICAN SPANISH -- 1 Introduction -- 2 An alternative analysis -- 3 The data -- 4 The change from textual to pragmatic duplication -- 5 Permanence and diffusion of possessive duplications in Mexican Spanish -- 6 Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- ON SUBJECTIFICATION IN MODAL ADVERBS -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Lexical typology -- 3 Semantic typology -- 4 Categorial sources of modality in adverbs -- 5 Mechanisms of change -- SOURCES -- REFERENCES -- GENDER, CLASS, AND PRESTIGEIN THE SPREAD OF AN ALLOPHONIC RULE -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Background -- 3 Informants and data collection -- 4 Results -- 5 Interpretation -- 6 Conclusion -- REFERENCES.

RECONSTRUCTION OF THE PROTO-ROMANCE SYLLABLE -- 0 Introduction -- 1 Theoretical assumptions -- 2 Diachronic sound changes in Romance -- 3 Summary -- 4 Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- THE DEVELOPMENT OF WORD-FINAL /b/ IN ENGLISH -- 0 Introduction -- 1 Data classification -- 2 Discussion -- SOURCES -- REFERENCES -- AREAL LINGUISTICS IN PREHISTORY: EVIDENCE FROM INDO-EUROPEAN ASPECT -- REFERENCES -- THE LATER STAGES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THEDEFINITE ARTICLE: EVIDENCE FROM FRENCH -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Background: the cycle of the definite article -- 3 The zero article in Modern French -- 4 Implicationsfor grammaticalization theory -- 5 Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- PARAMETERS UNDERLYING THE ORGANIZATIONOF MEDIEVAL RUSSIAN TEXTS -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Textual units in the Synodal MS of the First Novgorod Chronicle -- REFERENCES -- WHAT THE CHOICE OF THE OVERT NOMINALIZER NO DIDTO MODERN JAPANESE SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS -- 1 Introduction -- REFERENCES -- ON CATEGORIAL EVOLUTION: A CASE STUDY IN SPANISH POSSESSIVES -- 1 Old Spanish possessives: a hypothesis -- 2 Case assignment and genitive case -- 3 Case-theoretic account of Old Spanish possessives -- 4 Change in binding relation -- 5 Concluding remarks -- SOURCES -- REFERENCES -- REGRESSION AND CREATIONIN THE DOUBLE ACCUSATIVE IN ANCIENT GREEK -- 0 Introduction -- 1 The double accusative of the whole and the part -- 2 Double accusative with two external objects -- 3 Double accusative with local accusatives -- 4 Double accusatives in idioms -- 5 Double accusative with verbs of judgement or condemnation -- REFERENCES -- MORPHOLOGICAL REANALYSIS AND TYPOLOGY:THE CASE OF THE GERMAN r-PLURALAND WHY ENGLISH DID NOT DEVELOP IT -- REFERENCES -- ON THE GRAMMATICIZATION OF THE DEFINITE ARTICLE SEIN SPOKEN FINNISH -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Article development as a paradigm case of grammaticization -- 3 The development of SE.

4 The development of SE as an example of grammaticization -- 5 Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- IDENTIFYING AN OLD FRENCH TEXTWITH THE HELP OF DIALECT ANALYSIS -- 1 The date of the original -- 2 Localizing the copy and the original -- 3 Localizing the copy -- 4 Localizing the Original -- 5 Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- PROTOTYPICALITY AND AGENTHOOD IN INDO-EUROPEAN -- 0 Introduction -- 1 Special morphologyf or non-prototypical agents -- 2 Split control -- 3 Discussion -- 4 Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- GENETIC CONGRUENCE VERSUS AREAL CONVERGENCE:THE MISFORTUNE OF LATIN AD IN ROMANIAN -- 1 The enclitic declension -- 2 The syncretism of genitive and dative and the personal pronouns -- 3 The functions of A(D) in sixteenth and seventeenth century texts -- 4 A and the possessive demonstrative AL -- 5 The competition between A and LA "at, to". -- 6 Conclusions -- SOURCES -- ON THE FATE OF ADJECTIVAL DECLENSIONIN OVERSEAS DUTCH (WITH SOME NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF DUTCH) -- 1 Introductory remarks -- 2 Adjectival declension in seventeenth-century Dutch -- 3 Developments in adjectival declension in overseas Dutch -- 4 Some conclusions -- REFERENCES -- CLITIC PLACEMENT FROM OLD TO MODERN EUROPEAN PORTUGUESE -- 0 Introduction -- 1 Clitic placement in Modern Portuguese -- 2 Clitic placement in Old Portuguese -- 3 Explaining the changes between Old and Modern European Portuguese -- 4 Final remarks -- REFERENCES -- A DIACHRONIC VIEWOF PREPOSITIONAL VERBS OF EMOTION IN SPANISH -- 1 Introduction -- 2.1 The active construction -- 3 The prepositions -- 4 Conclusion -- SOURCES -- REFERENCES -- PHONOLOGICALLY BASED MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGE:HIGH-VOWEL DELETION AND PARADIGMATIC IMPLICATIONSIN OLD ENGLISH -- 1 Background -- 2 High-Vowel Deletion -- 3 Set I exceptions -- 4 Set II exceptions -- 5 Evidence for the relevance of syllable count -- 6 Evidence for the relevance of weight.

7 Markedness and syllable count of stems -- 8 Paradigm collapse -- 9 Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- DIACHRONICALLY STABLE STRUCTURAL FEATURES -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Survey -- 3 Results -- 4 Interpretation -- THE DIACHRONIC DISTRIBUTION OF BARE AND PREPOSITIONAL INFINITIVES IN ENGLISH -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Bare and prepositional infinitives in Romance -- 3 English infinitives -- 4 Diachronic analysis -- 5 Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- OBJECT SHIFT IN OLD SPANISH: A MINIMALIST THEORY APPROACH -- 1 Theoretical background -- 2 Object Shift constructions -- 3 The position of shifted objects -- 4 The loss of Object Shift Constructions -- REFERENCES -- LEXICAL DIFFUSION AS A GUIDE TO SCRIBAL INTENT:A COMPARISON OF ME «eo» AND «e» SPELLINGSIN THE PETERBOROUGH CHRONICLE AND THE ORMULUM -- REFERENCES -- VERB-SECONDING IN OLD ENGLISH -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Background assumptions -- 3 The V2 constraint -- 4 Leftward verb movement in Old English main clauses -- 5 V2 in Old English subordinate clauses -- 6 Summary and conclusions -- REFERENCES -- THE THEMATIC STRUCTUREOF THE MAIN CLAUSE IN OLD FRENCH: OR VERSUS SI -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Outline of a pragmatic theory of SI -- 3 Verification procedure -- 4 OR in the preverbal slot: results -- 5 Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- ON DIFFERENT WAYS OFOPTIMIZING THE SOUND SHAPE OF WORDS -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Different preferences in the shortenings and in the normal lexicon -- REFERENCES -- EXAPTATION AND GRAMMATICALIZATION -- REFERENCES -- AUTHORS' ADDRESSES -- INDEX OF NAMES -- INDEX OF LANGUAGES.