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Areal typology and grammaticalization - the emergence of new verbalmorphology in an obsolescent language, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald; fluorescenceas a force in grammaticalization, Wallace Chafe; on the genesis of the verbphrase in Cariban languages - diversity through reanalysis, Spike Gildea;internal reconstruction - as method, as theory, T. Givon; the concept ofproof in genetic linguistics, Joseph H. Greenberg; grammaticalization chainsacross languages - an example from Khosian, Bernd Heine; the accidentalintransitive split in the Cariban family, Sergio Meira; the reordering ofmorphemes, Marianne Mithun.