Table of Contents

1. Foreword; 2. Part I. Grammaticalization; 3. Lexicalization and grammaticalization all over again (by Brinton, Laurel J.); 4. Grammaticalization as reduction: Focus constructions in Chiapas Zoque (by Faarlund, Jan Terje); 5. Metaphor and teleology do not drive grammaticalization (by Juge, Matthew L.); 6. Part II. Syntax and semantics; 7. Processing factors in syntactic variation and change: Clitics in Medieval and Renaissance Spanish (by Bouzouita, Miriam); 8. Dynamic Syntax and dialogue modelling: Preliminaries for a dialogue-driven account of syntactic change (by Kempson, Ruth M.); 9. An economy approach to the triggering of the Russian instrumental predicate case (by Madariaga, Nerea); 10. Change and variation in ga/no conversion in Tokyo Japanese (by Nambu, Satoshi); 11. Perfect change: Synchrony meets diachrony (by Ritz, Marie-Eve); 12. Variable use of negation in Middle Low German (by Sundquist, John D.); 13. Is there a DP in Old English? (by Wood, Johanna L.); 14. Part III. Morphology; 15. Some semantic and pragmatic aspects of case-loss in Old French (by Ashdowne, Richard); 16. The final stages of deflection: The case of Afrikaans het "have" (by Conradie, C. Jac); 17. Demonstrative paradigm splitting in the Pilbara languages of Western Australia (by Dench, Alan); 18. Infinitival forms in Aramaic (by Fassberg, Steven E.); 19. The role of productivity in word-formation change (by Scherer, Carmen); 20. Part IV. Phonetics and phonology; 21. Structured imbalances in the emergence of the Korean vowel system (by Ahn, Sang-Cheol); 22. Final features and proto-Uto-Aztecan: A contribution using morphological reconstruction (by Dakin, Karen); 23. Facts, theory and dogmas in historical linguistics: Vowel quantity from Latin to Romance (by Loporcaro, Michele); 24. On the irregularity of Open Syllable Lengthening in German (by Page, B. Richard); 25. The resilience of prosodic templates in the history of West Germanic (by Smith, Laura Catharine); 26. Part V: Variation; 27. Urban interactions and written standards in Early Modern German (by Spencer, Bruce H.); 28. The Hollandish roots of Pella Dutch in Iowa (by Reenen, Pieter van); 29. Language index; 30. Name index; 31. Subject index