Perspectives on language structure and language change : studies in honor of Henning Andersen / edited by Lars Heltoft, Iván Igartua, Brian D. Joseph, Kirsten Jeppesen Kragh, Lene Schøsler.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Perspectives on language structure and language change: an introduction / Lars Heltoft, Ivan Igartua, Brian Joseph, Kirsten Jeppesen Kragh, and Lene Schøsler -- Part I. On the theory of language change: Andersen (1973) and dichotomies of change / Brian D. Joseph and Hope C. Dawson -- 'As time goes by' Play it again! Induction and tradition / Ole Nedergaard Thomsen -- Approaching the typology and diachrony of morphological reversals / Iván Igartua -- Deconstructing markedness in sound change typology: Notes on . > f and f > . / Juliette Blevins -- Part II. Indexicality: The content and expression of Danish forstå: Diachronic morphology, indexical function and critique of the morphome analysis / Peter Juul Nielsen -- Word order as grammaticalised semiotic systems / Lars Heltoft -- Part III. Problems of reanalysis: Anticausative and passive in Vedic: Which way reanalysis? / Hans Henrich Hock -- Grammaticalization and degrammati(calizati)on in the development of the Iranian verb system / Vit Bubenik -- Aspects of grammaticalization and reanalysis in the voice domain in the transition from Latin to early Italo-Romance / Michela Cennamo -- From preverbal to postverbal in the early history of Japanese / Bjarke Frellesvig -- Reanalysis in the Russian past tense: The gerundial perfect / Jan Ivar Bjoernflaten -- From a single lexical unit to multiple grammatical paradigms / Kirsten Jeppesen Kragh and Lene Schøsler -- Morphosyntactic reanalysis in Australian languages: Three studies / Harold Koch -- Definiteness in Germanic and Balto-Slavic: Historical and comparative perspectives / John Ole Askedal -- Part IV. Actualization: Diatopy and frequency as indicators of spread: Accentuation in Bulgarian dialects / Ronelle Alexander -- Suppletion or illusion? The diachrony of suppletive derivation / Johanna Nichols -- Part V. Language change and diachronic typology in Balto-Slavic: A complicated relationship: Balto-Slavic accentual mobility as a non-trivial shared innovation / Thomas Olander -- Name-calling: The Russian 'new Vocative' and its status / Laura A. Janda -- Changes of tense and modality in Late Medieval Slovene: Transference, extension or both? / Jadranka Gvozdanovic.

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