Papers from the VIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Poznań, 22-26 August 1983

1. Preface
 2. List of participants
 3. Conference programme
 4. Divergence and convergence in linguistic evolution (by Birnbaum, Henrik)
 5. Areal linguistics and its implications for historical linguistics (by Campbell, Lyle)
 6. Paradigm economy in Latin nouns (by Carstairs-McCarthy, Andrew D.)
 7. Ablaut: a phoenix in the history of Afrikaans (by Conradie, C. Jac)
 8. An  analysis and synthesis in sound change (by Danchev, Andrei)
 9. On the diachrony of subtractive poerations: evidence for semiotically based models of natural phonology and natural morphology from northern  anatolien greek dialects (by Dressler, Wolfgang U.)
 10. Did old English have a middle voice? (by Fraser, Thomas H.K.)
 11. The  vowel /a:/ in English (by Gburek, Hubert)
 12. Framing the linguistic actions scene in Old and Present-day English: CWEpAN, SECGAN, SP(R)ECAN and Present-day English SPEAK, TALK, SAY and TELL  compared (by Goossens, Louis)
 13. Lexical restructuring: rule loss versus rule intersection
 evidence from Italian (by de Grandis, Rita)
 14. Theories of sound change fail if they try predict too much (by Gvozdanovic, Jadranka)
 15. Chance and necessity in diachronic syntax - word order typologies and the position of modern  Persian relative clauses (by Haider, Hubert)
 16. Umlaut as a harmony process (by Hamans, Camiel S.J.N.)
 17. Divergent patterns of word prder in contemporary French (by Harris, Martin B.)
 18. Articulatory modes and typological universals: the puzzle of Bantu ejectives ans aspirates (by Herbert, Robert K.)
 19. Velar segments in Old English and Old Irish (by Hickey, Raymond)
 20. On the semasiologization of phonological rules: the semiotic evolution of Finnish consonant gradation (by Holman, Eugene)
 21. Another explanation for the development of s before l in Norwegian (by Jahr, Ernst Hakon)
 22. Wilhelm Scherer's Zur geschichte der deutschen Sprache: a milestone in 19th-century linguistics (by Jankowsky, Kurt R.)
 23. Proto-Indo-European consonantism: methodological and further typological concerns (by Joseph, Brian D.)
 24. The  place of Saussure's Memoire in the development of historical linguistics (by Koerner, E.F.K.)
 25. Indo-European numerals and the sexagesimal system (by Manczak, Witold)
 26. Absolute versus relative comparison: typology and development (by Markey, Thomas)
 27. Diachronic morphologization: the circumstances surrounding the birth, growth and decline of noun incorporation (by Mithun, Marianne)
 28. For a diachrony-in-synchrony analysis (by Nagucka, Ruta)
 29. On the possible clusters of mb, nd, and ng in Proto-  Japanese (by Peng, Fred C.C.)
 30. Are there dysfunctional changes? (by Giacalone Ramat, Anna)
 31. The Indo-European origin of the Balti Slavic - e - and - a-  preterite (by Rasmussen, Jens Elmegard)
 32. Variability in word formation patterns and productivity in the American South (by Schneider, Edgar W.)
 33. Rule ordering and the dynamics of diatopic language variation (by Taeldeman, Johan)
 34. Le  developpement d'un auxiliaire modal en yiddish: lozn 'laiser' (by Taube, Moshe)
 35. Confrontation and association (by Traugott, Elizabeth Closs)
 36. The  bifurcation theory of the Germanic and German consonant shifts: synopsis and some further thoughts (by Vennemann, Theo)
 37. Prosodic structures and the development of French schwa (by Verluyten, S. Paul)
 38. On the origins and developments of American English (by Viereck, Wolfgang)
 39. Quelques problemes des recherche etymologiques sur les emprunts lexicaux (by Walczak, Bogdan)
 40. Morphologische Naturlichkeit und morphologischer Wandel. Zur vorhersagbarkeit von  sprachveranderungen (by Wurzel, Wolfgang Ullrich)
 41. Anders Ahlqvist: Summing up
 42. Index of languages
 43. Index of names