This volume contains conference papers on general issues of language change, as well as specific studies of non-Germanic languages. It considers work in progress in the field of diachronistic linguistics, providing a snapshot of the discipline at the time the conference was held.

1. Introduction; 2. Emergence and Evolution of French Nasal Vowels: Reconsidering data through the interplay of production and perception (by Azra-Ikezawa, Jean-Luc); 3. Development of Aspect from Ancient Slavic to Bulgaro-Macedonian (by Bubenik, Vit); 4. Patterns of 'Active' Syntax in Late Latin Pleonastic Reflexives (by Cennamo, Michela); 5. Comparative Reconstitution (by Dench, Alan); 6. Expletives and Change: A morphological approach to syntactic change (by Dufresne, Monique); 7. Variation between the French Clitics y and lui: Semantics vs. morphology (by Dumas, Denis); 8. On Simplicity in Linguistic Reconstruction (by Fox, Anthony); 9. Recent Changes in the Tonology of Kyoto Japanese (by Frellesvig, Bjarke); 10. On Some Grammaticalization Patterns for Auxiliaries (by Giacalone Ramat, Anna); 11. Kakari Particles and the Merger of the Predicative and Attributive Forms in Old Japanese (by Hendriks, Peter); 12. Is Quantifier-Floating in Japanese a Recent Innovation? Contextual analysis of the numeral quantifier construction in Old Japanese (by Kim, Alan Hyun-Oak); 13. Vedic Causative Nasal Presents and their Thematicization: A functional approach (by Kulikov, Leonid); 14. The 'Invisible Hand' at Work: Phonemic change as a 'phenomenon of the third kind' (by Lloyd, Paul M.); 15. The Origins of Definiteness Marking (by Lyons, Christopher); 16. From Deixis ad Oculos to Discourse Markers via Deixis ad Phantasma (by Manoliu, Maria M.); 17. The Legacy of Recycled Aspect (by Mithun, Marianne); 18. The Development of Transitivity in the Chibchan Languages of Colombia (by Ostler, Nicholas); 19. Capitalization (by Pountain, Christopher J.); 20. Indo-European *d, *l, and *dl (by Pulju, Tim); 21. Declension in Old and Middle French: Two opposing tendencies (by Reenen, Pieter van); 22. From Latin Metre to Romance Rhythm (by Saltarelli, Mario); 23. Diverging Sources of Perfective Aspect Morphology in Tibeto-Kinnauri: External motivation or internal development? (by Saxena, Anju); 24. On the Origins of the Order of agreement and Tense Markers (by Siewierska, Anna); 25. Character-Based Reconstruction of a Linguistic Cladogram (by Taylor, Ann); 26. Bringing the Invisible Hand to Cognitive Grammar (by Winters, Margaret E.); 27. Index