Frontmatter -- Introduction / Gvozdanović, Jadranka -- Functional and cognitive aspects of change -- In what sense can explanations of language change be functional? / Keller, Rudi -- Grasping the invisible hand / García, Erica -- The cognitive calculus and its function in language / Eliasson, Stig -- Tracing the origin of a change / Gvozdanović, Jadranka -- The rise of switch-reference in the Awyu languages of Irian Jaya / Vries, Lourens de -- Linguistic activity and change -- "Scenario" as a concept for the functional explanation of language change / Dressler, Wolfgang U. -- Changes in diminutive formation in the eastern Dutch dialect of Twente / Bree, Cor van -- Reformed versus Catholic: the origins of the [hu:s]/[hy:s] isogloss in eastern Netherlands at the beginning of the 17th century / Reenen, Peter van -- Indirectness in speech acts from a diachronic perspective: some evolutionary aspects of rhetorical questions in Spanish dialogue / Haverkate, Henk -- Typology and language change -- On the use of subjunctive and indicative verb-forms in adverbial clauses / Hengeveld, Kees / Wanders, Gerry -- Nominal syntax in Italic: a diachronic perspective / Bauer, Brigitte L.M. -- Index of subjects |