Table of Contents

1. Preface; 2. Liste des participants; 3. Endgultiges Programm der Konferenz; 4. On explaining language change (by Harris, Martin B.); 5. Assibilation in Sino-Korean (by Baek, Eung-Jin); 6. Le francais de demain: VSO ou VOS (by Bailard, Joelle); 7. Why small children cannot change language on their own: suggestions from the English past tense (by Bybee, Joan L.); 8. The analogical pressure of synonymy: the dual gender of Spanish mar 'sea' (by Cravens, Thomas D.); 9. Subject raising in Old Irish (by Disterheft, Dorothy); 10. The system of verbs involving a speaker-hearer relationship: come/go, bring/take, in Old and Middle English (by Fraser, Thomas H.K.); 11. Word order change in Dutch imparative clauses: the interaction between contextual and syntactic factors (by Gerritsen, Marinel); 12. On the development of the modals and the epistemic function in English (by Goossens, Louis); 13. Some phonological changes in Polynesian languages (by Harlow, R.B.); 14. Ablaut and syntax in Kartvelian (by Harris, Alice C.); 15. Shifting systems: evidence for systemic change in French historical phonology (by Hewson, John); 16. Aspects of the evolution of relatives in Romance (by Hirschbuhler, Paul); 17. On the historical continuity of linguistic systems (by Holman, Eugene); 18. Change of language as a prototype for change of linguistics (by Itkonen, Esa); 19. Diachronic facts vs. synchronic fiction: historical linguistic evidence against assuming underlying grammatical uniformity for contemporary dialects of the same language (by Janda, Richard D.); 20. Semantic change and etymologies (by Job, D.M.); 21. Morphologycal influences on soundchange (by Johnson, Steve); 22. The system of negation in later Middle English prose (by Joly, Andre); 23. Reductive phonetic developments as the trigger to typological change: two examples from the Finno-Ugrian languages (by Korhonen, Mikko); 24. Modern Irish grammars and the plural marker acha (by Lazar-Meyn, Heidi Ann); 25. Graphology and sound change in Old Prussian (by Levin, Jules); 26. Iconicity in phonological change (by Mannheim, Bruce); 27. On the problem of historical interpretation: Verner's law in gothic (by Milroy, James); 28. The mistery of the vanished Laurentinians (by Mithun, Marianne); 29. On the origin of the Portugese inflected infinitive (by Osborne, Bruce); 30. Schreibumwertung und die Methoden der historischen Phonologie (by Penzl, Herbert); 31. On the sources of Indo-European conjunctions of purpos, cause and result (by Pepicello, W.J.); 32. A Neglected phonetic law: the reduction of the Indo-European laryngeals in internal syllables before yod (by Pinault, Georges-Jean); 33. Explorations on syntactic change (relative clause formation strategies) (by Giacalone Ramat, Anna); 34. The reconstruction of language in its social context: methodology for a socio-historical linguistic theory (by Romaine, Suzanne); 35. Vivid language and language change (by Scott, Janet E.); 36. From deontic to epistemic: an analysis of modals in the history of English, creoles, and language acquisition (by Shepherd, Susan C.); 37. On short-term language change: developments in Irish morphology (by Stenson, Nancy J.); 38. Conversational pues in Spanish: a proces of degrammaticalization? (by Paez Urdaneta, Iraset); 39. Numerical and socio-linguistic perspectives of the p/pf-isogloss in South-Rhenish Franconian dialects (by Sture Ureland, P.); 40. Historical metrics: the caesura in French (by Verluyten, S. Paul); 41. Structural change and pidginization in the history of the Arabic language (by Versteegh, Kees); 42. Theories of language and the nature of evidence and explanation in historical linguistics (by Vizmuller, Jana); 43. From discourse to syntax: for in Early English causal clauses (by Wiegand, Nancy); 44. Historical linguistics and metaphilology (by Wolfart, H. Christoph); 45. On the historical roots of the philology and historical linguistics (by Buachalla, Breandan O); 46. Scribal practise and historical phonology (by Andersen, Henning); 47. Discussion; 48. Concluding remarks (by Traugott, Elizabeth Closs); 49. Index Fontium et Nominum; 50. Index Linguarum; 51. Index Rerum