Abstract

1. Preface 2. Program 3. Synchronic, diachronic, and panchronic linguistics (by Christie, Jr., William M.) 4. The interplay between diachronic linguistics and dialectology: Some refinements of Trudgill's formula (by Gerritsen, Marinel) 5. Development of tones in languages with distinctive tonal accents (by Gvozdanovic, Jadranka) 6. Diachrony in synchrony (by Hammarstrom, Goran) 7. Determinism in linguistics: neogrammarian and transformationalist (by Hewson, John) 8. Historical development of tone patterns (by Hombert, Jean-Marie) 9. Short-term and long-term teleology in linguistic change (by Itkonen, Esa) 10. Sound change and perceptual compensation (by Janson, Tore) 11. The neogrammarian doctrine: breakthrough or extension of the Schleicherian paradigm (by Koerner, E.F.K.) 12. Observations on the sources, transmission, and meaning of 'Indo-european' and related terms in the development of linguistics (by Koerner, E.F.K.) 13. Semantic investiture of underspecified units in syntax (by Langhoff, Stephan) 14. The phonetic nature of the Neo-Stokavian accent shifts in Serbo-croatian (by Lehiste, Ilse) 15. Homo : Humus and the semitic counterparts: The oldest culturally significant Etymology? (by Levin, Saul) 16. La desinence feminine -esse (by Lofstedt, Leena) 17. Between monogenesis and polygenesis (by Malkiel, Yakov) 18. On comparative syntax (by Mithun, Marianne) 19. A syntactic correlate of style switching in the Canterbury tales (by Ness, Lynn) 20. Evidence of auslautsverhartung in old saxon (by Odwarka, Karl) 21. The application of the comparative method to the philippine languages (by Paz, Consuelo J.) 22. Historical analogy and the peircean categories (by Rauch, Irmengard) 23. The PIE word order controversy and word order in lithuanian (by Reklaitis, Janine K.) 24. On the problem of merger (by Ringgaard, Kristian) 25. The word-and-paradigm model and linguistic change: the verbal system of ojibwa (by Wolfart, H. Christoph) 26. Indices

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