Front matter -- Preface -- Table of contents -- List of participants -- Morphological change: towards a typology / ANDERSEN, HENNING -- On the development of morphology from syntax / ANDERSON, STEPHEN R. -- The relevance of productivity in a synchronic description of word formation / ARONOFF, MARK -- Morphology and word order reconstruction: problems and prospects / COMRIE, BERNARD -- The diachrony of the gender systems in English and Dutch / DEKEYSER, XAVIER -- Some notes on Byelorussian historical morphology / DINGLEY, JAMES -- Case, word order and coding in a historical linguistic perspective / ELIASSON, STIG -- The marking of definiteness in Romance / HARRIS, MARTIN -- Child morphology and morphophonemic change / HOOPER, JOAN BYBEE -- The evolution of genitive-accusative animate and personal nouns in Slavic dialects / HUNTLEY, DAVID -- Zero in morphology: a means of making up for phonological losses? / KASTOVSKY, DIETER -- Paradigm coherence and the conditioning of sound change: Yiddish 'schwa-deletion' again / LASS, ROGER -- The place of morphology in a universal cybernetic theory of language change / LÜDTKE, HELMUT -- Laws of analogy / MAŃCZAK, WITOLD -- Encoding grammatical relations: acceptable and unacceptable non-distinctness / PLANK, FRANS -- The functional development of the verbal suffix +esc+ in Romance / RUDES, BLAIR A. -- Paradigmatic displacement / SCHUH, RUSSEL G. -- Morphological instability, with and without language contact / THOMASON, SARAH |