Variation and Reconstruction

1. Variation and reconstruction (by Niepokuj, Mary K.); 2. Microvariability in time and space: Reconstructing the past from the present (by Cravens, Thomas D.); 3. Reconstructing variation at shallow time depths: The historical phonetics of 19th century German dialects in the U.S. (by Geiger, Steven R.); 4. Social and structural factors in the development of Dutch urban dialects in the Early Modern period (by Goss, Emily L.); 5. Reduction of variation in the standardization of Castilian Spanish around 1500 (by Harris-Northall, Ray); 6. On projecting variation back into a proto-language, with particular attention to Germanic evidence and some thoughts on "drift" (by Joseph, Brian D.); 7. Variation of direct speech complementizers in Achaemenid Aramaic documents from Fifth Century B.C.E. Egypt (by Miller, Cynthia L.); 8. Language change and the speaker: On the discourse of Historical Linguistics (by Milroy, James); 9. Prefix variation and reconstruction (by Ratliff, Martha); 10. On reconstructing a linguistic continuum in Cape Dutch (1710 1840) (by Roberge, Paul T.); 11. The reconstruction of variability in Proto-Germanic gender (by Schwink, Frederick W.); 12. Variation as a reflection of contact: Notes from Southeast Asia (by Thurgood, Graham); 13. Index