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Table of contents Contributors' addresses vii Preface ix Languagecontact and language change in Amazonia 1 Alexandra Y. AikhenvaldGrammaticalization and the historical development of the genitive inMainlandScandinavian 21 John Ole Askedal Beyond the comparative method? 33 LyleCampbell The transition from early to modern Portuguese - An approach fromhistorical sociolinguistics 59 Maria Jose Carvalho Isomorphism and languagechange 71 C. Jac Conradie From purposive/future to present: Shifting temporalcategories in the Pilbara languages of north west Western Australia 87 AlanDench The formation of periphrastic perfects and passives in Europe: An arealapproach 105 Bridget Drinka The grammaticalization of movement: Word orderchange in Nordic 129 Jan Terje Faarlund Paths of development for modalmeanings: Evidence from the Finnic potential mood 143 Hannele Forsberg Ondegrammaticalization 163 Bernd Heine Process inhibition in historicalphonology 181 Patrick Honeybone. Table of contents Reconsidering the canonsof sound-change: Towards a 'Big Bang' theory 205 Richard D. Janda & Brian D.Joseph Case inMiddle Danish - A double content system 221 Eva Skafte JensenThe development of some Indonesian pronominal systems 237 Ritsuko KikusawaMorphological reconstruction as an etymological method 269 Harold KochLabovian principles of vowel shifting revisited: The short vowel shift in NewZealand English and Southern Chinese 291 Lau Chun-fat Conventionalimplicature and language change. The cyclic evolution of the emphaticpronouns in Romanian 301 Maria M. Manoliu The rise of IPs in the History ofEnglish 319 Fuyo Osawa From subject to object: Case studies on Finnish 337Heli Pekkarinen Borrowing as a tool for grammatical optimization in thehistory of German brand names 349 Elke Ronneberger-Sibold Pragmatic relevanceas cause for syntactic change: The emergence of prepositional complementizersin Romance 363 Kim Schulte Early Nordic language history and modern runology- With particular reference to reduction and prefix loss 377 Michael SchulteMeaning change in verbs: The case of strike 389 Nick Riemer On theinterpretation of early evidence for ME vowel-change 401 Gjertrud F.Stenbrenden On the reflexes of Proto-Germanic ai. The spellings ie, ei and eyin Middle Dutch 415 Pieter van Reenen and Anke Jongkind