Historical Linguistics 2007 -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Foreword & acknowledgements -- Introduction -- References -- Part I phonology -- Middle English vowel length in French loanwords -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous analyses of vowel length in French loanwords -- 3. An introduction to syllable cut theory -- 4. Syllable cut prosody in Middle English -- 5. Reanalysis of French loanwords in Middle English -- References -- Dental fricatives and stops in Germanic -- 1. Introduction - some guiding principles -- 2. A case study - English -- 3. Proto-Germanic and other Germanic developments -- 4. Discussion and Conclusion -- References -- Appendix A -- Dialect variation and the Dutch diminutive -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 3. Dutch diminutives -- 3.1 Data -- 3.2 Support for the prosodic template: Evidence from Dutch dialects -- 3.3 Extension and loss of prosodic templates in Dutch dialects -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Part II Morphology, syntax and semantics -- On the disappearance of genitive types in Middle English -- 1. Introduction: Obsolete genitives -- 1.1 Objective genitives with nouns of emotion -- 2. The history of objective genitives of fear and love -- 2.1 From early to late OE -- 2.2 Middle English -- 3. Possible explanations -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- An asymmetric view on stage II in Jespersen's cycle in the West Germanic languages -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Stage II in West Germanic -- 2.1 Purely formal negation -- 2.1.1 The exceptive construction -- 2.1.2 Expletive negation -- 2.2 Indefinites in the scope of negation -- 3. An alternative approach -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Temporal reference and grammaticalization in the Spanish perfect(ive) -- 1. Grammaticalization and the Present Perfect -- 2. The data used for the present study -- 3. Frequency of use.

4. Semantic generalization: The PP as anterior and perfective -- 5. Results -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- (Un)-interpretable features and grammaticalization -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Facts, laws and order -- 3. Grammaticalization as feature (un)interpretability -- 4. The grammaticalization of plural markers in FBCs -- References -- Imperative morphology in diachrony evidence from the Romance languages -- 1. The Romance imperative -- 2. Imperatives and defectiveness -- 3. Imperatives and suppletion -- 4. Imperatives as loci of inflectional aberrations -- 5. The imperative form as 'base' in analogical change and derivation -- 6. Differentiation of previously syncretic present and imperative forms -- 7. Implications of the data for status of imperative -- References -- VO vs V(…)O en Français -- 1. Introduction : Enjeux, problématique et démarche -- 2. Choix de la thématique -- 2.1. Configurations étudiées -- 2.2 Etudes antérieures -- 3. Constructions possibles en ancien français, constructions disparues et constructions conservées -- 3.1 Quelques rappels -- 3.2 Cas où le sujet et l'objet sont du même coté du verbe -- 3.3 Structure 1 : Le sujet et l'objet précèdent le verbe dans l'ordre SO : Sn/Sp On V (X) -- 3.4 Structure 2 : l'objet et le sujet précèdent le verbe dans l'ordre OS : On Sn/Sp V (X) -- 3.5 Structure 3 : (X) V Sn/Sp On : Les deux arguments suivent le verbe dans l'ordre SO -- 3.6 Structure 4 : (X) V On Sn : Les deux arguments suivent le verbe dans l'ordre OS -- 3.7 Conclusion sur les quatre schémas où S et On sont du même côté du verbe -- 4. (X) V On Sn en français moderne : Contraintes et explication -- Bibliographie -- On the development of Recipient passives in DO languages -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Recipient passive of Spanish -- 3. The motivating forces behind the development of Recipient passives.

4. The evolution of the Recipient passive in Spanish -- 4.1 The locus of subjective viewing -- 4.2 Grammaticalization of the Recipient's perspective with pronouns -- 4.3 Extension of the Recipient-oriented passives to all nominal entities -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- The emergence of DP in the history of English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Genitive case -- 3. Nominals in the history of English -- 4. Emergence of group genitives -- 5. Previous studies on group genitives -- 6. My claim -- 6.1 The emergence of DPs -- 6.2 Old English case system -- 7. Concluding remarks -- References -- A diachronic view of Psychological verbs with Dative Experiencers in Spanish and Romanian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Two Old Spanish constructions with Dative Experiencers -- 3. The three functional factors in diachrony -- 3.1 Aspect and the history of Spanish psych vs -- 3.1.1 Postmedieval stative constructions -- 3.1.2 Postmedieval telic constructions -- 3.2 Dative Experiencers in the history of Spanish and Romanian -- 3.3 Themes in the history of Spanish and Romanian -- References -- On the loss of the masculine genitive plural in Cypriot Greek -- 1. The Greek case system and the position of the genitive therein -- 2. The Cypriot variety of Greek -- 3. The genitive masculine plural in medieval Cypriot Greek -- 3.1 Internal evolution -- 3.2 Contact with Old French -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- The rise of peripheral modifiers in the noun phrase -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The diachrony of peripheral modifiers -- 2.1. Focus particles -- 2.2 Particle clusters -- 2.3 Other adverbs -- 2.4 Clausal chunks -- 2.5 Combinations -- 3. Conclusion -- References -- Wild variation, random patterns, and uncertain data -- 1. Linearizing clitics and infinitives in Spanish diachrony -- 2. Uncertain data and wild variation -- 3. Analogical Modeling and Concrete Minimalism.

4. Unreliable texts -- 5. Special character of {inf, cl} -- 6. Interpreting the historical record -- Texts Cited -- References -- Part III Sociolinguistics and dialectology -- Le changement linguistique dans la langue orale selon deux recherches sur le terrain séparées d'un siècle -- 1. Le nord-est de la Catalogne et la typologie spatiale des caractéristiques -- 2. Caractéristiques à étudier -- 3. tude du changement linguistique de ces caractéristiques au cours du 20e siècle -- 3.1. Les corpus comparés -- 3.1.1 Données Alcover (1906-1928) -- 3.1.2 Données actuelles (1999-2000) -- 3.2 La quantification des données -- 3.3 Comparaison du changement linguistique des caractéristiques regroupées dans les deux types spatiaux -- 3.3.1 Caractéristiques du type spatial I -- 3.3.2 Caractéristiques du type spatial II -- 3.4 Analyse particulière de chacune des caractéristiques -- 4. Causes des différences de signe et de degré du changement linguistique -- 5. Conclusions -- Références -- Patrons sociolinguistiques -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Patron de la variation chez les adultes -- 3. Patron de la variation chez les enfants -- 4. Résumé et discussion -- References -- Change of functions of the first person pronouns in Chinese -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data -- 3. The function of wu2 in Classical Chinese -- 4. The function of wo3 in Classical Chinese -- 5. The function of yu2 in Classical Chinese -- 6. The function of yu3 in Classical Chinese -- 7. The function of the zero pronoun in Classical Chinese -- 8. Summary of functions in the first person singular pronouns in Classical Chinese -- 9. The diachronic change of the first singular pronouns -- 10. Motivations for the loss of forms -- References -- Vinderup in real time -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology -- 3. Preliminary results from the panel study -- 4. The trend study: Changes between two age cohorts.

4.1 The social embedding of the rapid change -- 5. A family study -- 5.1 Results -- 5.2 Explanations -- 5.2.1 The grandfather -- 5.2.2 The mother -- 5.2.3 The father -- 5.2.4 The son -- 5.2.5 The daughter -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix 1 -- Variation in real time -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Linguistic change and speech community -- 3. Methodology -- 4. Quantification -- 5. Analysis of results -- 5.1 Phonetic context -- 5.2 Stylistic context -- 5.3 Sex -- 5.4 Origin -- 5.5 Age -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Part IV Tools and methodology -- UNIDIA -- 1. Context of the UNIDIA database -- 2. Scope of the UNIDIA database -- 3. Data features of the UNIDIA database -- 4. Contents of the UNIDIA database -- 5. Conclusion and perspectives -- References -- Visualization, validation and seriation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Corpus -- 3. Visualization through correspondence analysis -- 4. Seriation -- 4.1 General principle -- 4.2 Application to the global lexical table -- 4.3 Application to the lexical table without the first four texts/authors -- 5. Local statistical inference -- 5.1 Principle for bootstrap confidence areas -- 5.2 The case of principal components and the singular values decomposition -- 5.2.1 Total bootstrap. -- 5.2.2 Partial bootstrap. -- 5.3 The case of correspondence analysis and lexical tables -- 5.4 Two examples of confidence areas -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Quantifying linguistic changes -- 1. Aims -- 2. Differences and changes -- 3. Changes in grammar -- 4. Changes in frequency -- 5. Typology of society -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Historical core vocabulary: Spring and/or anchor -- 1. Two sides of the coin -- 2. Basic characteristics of English and German historical core vocabularies (HCVs) -- 3. The HCV position in the language system and its role in communication.

4. The HCV as a pivotal factor of lexis evolution.