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This is the first of two volumes deriving from papers presented at the Nineteenth Annual UVM Linguistics Symposium held in Milwaukee in April 1990. The contributions in this volume investigate the general question of what constitutes an explanation of diachronic change, and illustrate their proposals in the context of various specific problems in historical linguistics. The present volume also includes a solicited paper by Eric P. Hamp ( On remote reconstruction ) that addresses the validity of distant reconstructions like those of Nostratic and Proto-World. Content: Garry W. Davis & Gregory K. Iverson: Foreword Werner Abraham: Event structure accounting for the emerging periphrastic tenses and the passive voice in German Raimo Anttila: Historical explanation and historical linguistics J. Clancy Clements: Elements of resistance in language contact-induced change Alice Faber: Articulatory variability, categorical perception, and the inevitability of sound change Monika Forner, Jeanette K. Gundel, Kathleen Houlihan & Gerald Sanders: On the historical development of marked forms Eric P. Hamp: On misusing similarity Hans Henrich Hock: Reconstruction and syntactic typology: A plea for a different approach Brian D. Joseph: Diachronic explanation: Putting speakers back into the picture Suzanne Kemmer: Grammatical prototypes and competing motivations in a theory of linguistic change Flora Klein-Andreu: Understanding standards Carol Lynn Modor: Rules and analogy Mary Niepokuj: The development of perfect reduplication in Indo-European Joseph E. Salmons: A look at the data for a global etymology. Subject and Language Index.

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