Grammatical change in Indo-European languages papers presented at the workshop on Indo-European linguistics at the XVIIIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, 2007 (John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2009)
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The origin of the feminine gender in PIE : an old problem in a new perspective / Silvia Luraghi -- The animacy fallacy : cognitive categories and noun classification / Maria M. Manoliu -- Default, animacy, avoidance : diachronic and synchronic agreement variations with mixed-gender antecedents / Hans Henrich Hock -- The early development of animacy in Novgorod : evoking the vocative anew / Kyongjoon Kwon -- The development of mass/count distinctions in Indo-European varieties / Inés Fernández-Ordóñez -- Strategies of definiteness in Latin : implications for early Indo-European / Brigitte L.M. Bauer -- The rise and development of the possessive in Middle Iranian with parallels in Albanian / Vit Bubenik -- Does Homeric Greek have prepositions? Or local adverbs? : (and what's the difference anyway?) / Dag T. Haug -- On the origin of the Slavic aspects : questions of chronology / Henning Andersen -- The -to-/-no- construction of Indo-European : verbal adjective or past passive participle? / Bridget Drinka -- Grammaticalization of the verbal diathesis of Germanic / John Hewson -- The origin and meaning of the first person singular consonantal markers of the Hittite ḫi/mi conjugations / Sarah Rose -- The origin of the oblique-subject construction: an Indo-European comparison / Jóhanna Barðdal and Thórhallur Eythórsson -- Morphosyntactic changes in Persian and their effects on the syntax / Azam Estaji -- Possessive subjects, nominalization, and ergativity in North Russian / Hakyung Jung -- On the grammaticalization of kwi-/kwo- relative clauses in Proto-Indo-European / Eugenio R. Luján -- Formal correspondences, different functions : on the reconstruction of inflectional categories of Indo-European / José Luis García Ramón