Explanation in Historical Linguistics

1. Preface (by Davis, Garry W.); 2. Event structure accounting for the emerging periphrastic tenses and the passive voice in German (by Abraham, Werner); 3. Historical explanation and historical linguistics (by Anttila, Raimo); 4. Elements of resistance in contact-induced language change (by Clements, J. Clancy); 5. Articulatory variability, categorical perception, and the inevitability of sound change (by Faber, Alice); 6. On the historical development of marked forms (by Forner, Monika); 7. On misusing similarity (by Hamp, Eric P.); 8. Reconstruction and syntactic typology: A plea for a different approach (by Hock, Hans Henrich); 9. Diachronic explanation: putting speakers back into the picture (by Joseph, Brian D.); 10. Grammatical prototypes and competing motivations in a theory of linguistic change (by Kemmer, Suzanne); 11. Understanding standards (by Klein-Andreu, Flora); 12. Rules and analogy (by Moder, Carol Lynn); 13. The development of perfect reduplication in Indo-European (by Niepokuj, Mary K.); 14. A look at the data for a global etymology: *tik 'finger' (by Salmons, Joseph C.); 15. Author index; 16. Subject index; 17. Language index