Historical Linguistics 1997

1. Sound Laws: Reactions Present and Past (by Adamska-Salaciak, Arleta); 2. Passives in Western Malayo-Polynesian: An Asian Perspective (by Blake, Barry J.); 3. What can This Be?: A west African Contribution to Sranan (by Bruyn, Adrienne); 4. Grammmatical and Lexical Aspect in Akkadian and Proto-Semitic (by Bubenik, Vit); 5. Euphemism with Attitude: Politically Charged Language Change (by Burridge, Kate); 6. The Loss of the Voice Dimension Between Late Latin and Early Romance (by Cennamo, Michela); 7. How a Historical Linguist and a Native Speaker Understand a Complex Morphology (by Chafe, Wallace); 8. The Evolution of Grammar: Evidence from Indo-European Perfects (by Drinka, Bridget); 9. Yiddish and Hebrew: Borrowing Through Oral language Contact (by Gold, Elaine); 10. Degenerate Feet in Tacanan Languages: Unmarkedness in OT (by Jacobs, Haike); 11. The Evolution of O in Open Position: Parallel Developments in French and Dutch Dialects (by Jong, Thera de); 12. The Structure of ra-Deletion in Japanese (by Katada, Fusa); 13. Can Grammaticalization be Explained Invisible Handedly? (by Klausenburger, Jurgen); 14. Toward a 'Standard Yiddish' Pronounciation: An Instrumentally Aided Phonetic Analysis (by Kleine, Anke); 15. The Evolution of Adverbial Subordinators in Europe (by Kortmann, Bernd); 16. A corpus-Based Model for the Description of Language Change and Variation in Nominal Classification exemplified by Dutch Seventeenth Century Varieties (by Leuvensteijn, Arjan van); 17. Towards an Explanation of some Morphological Changes which 'Should Never Have Happened' (by Maiden, Martin); 18. On the Conservatism of Embedded Clauses (by Matsuda, Kenjiro); 19. Velars and Palatals in Old English Alliteration (by Minkova, Donka); 20. The Sequencing of Grammaticization Effects: A Twist from North America (by Mithun, Marianne); 21. What Research on Creole Genesis Can Contribute to Historical Linguistics (by Mufwene, Salikoko S.); 22. The Borrowing of Meaning as a Cause of Internal Syntactic Change (by Prince, Ellen F.); 23. Grammaticalization of Complex Verbal Constructions in Finnish (by Salminen, Taru); 24. Two Models for the Study of Language Contact: A Psycho-Linguistic perspective Versus a Socio-Cultural Perspective (by Smits, Caroline); 25. A Motivated Account of the Semantic Evolution of Watch and its Catalan Equivalents (by Verdaguer, Isabel); 26. Subject Index; 27. Index of Languages