Front matter -- Preface / Fisiak, Jacek -- Contents -- The phonetic phenomena connected with the strengthening and weakening of sonants in Bulgarian and Macedonian dialects / Duma, Jerzy -- Parasite consonants: A homographic clash / Jong, Thera de -- The nature of Old English dialect distributions, mainly as exhibited in charter boundaries / Kitson, Peter R. -- Geographical and linguistic distance in thirteenth-century Dutch / Mooijaart, Marijke -- Copyist behavior: Historical linguistics and text filiation / Mulken, Margôt van -- Contractions of preposition and plural article without s (e. g. a + les > au) in Old French, a completely overlooked problem of paradigm formation with implications for the theory of language change / Reenen, Pieter van -- Slavonic Pomerania in the past: Its links with the neighboring areas and its internal division / Rzetelska-Feleszko, Ewa -- New methods in textual criticism: The case of the Charroi de Nîmes / Schøsler, Lene -- "Sociolectalization" as a feature in different versions of medieval drama / Siller, Max -- Realizations of the definite article in dialectal English and how and when they originated / Viereck, Wolfgang -- A hypothesis on the structure of macaronic business writing / Wright, Laura -- Index of subjects -- Index of languages and dialects -- Index of names |