I-IV -- Preface -- Table of contents -- List of participants -- Morphological change: towards a typology -- On the development of morphology from syntax -- The relevance of productivity in a synchronic description of word formation -- Morphology and word order reconstruction: problems and prospects -- The diachrony of the gender systems in English and Dutch -- Some notes on Byelorussian historical morphology -- Case, word order and coding in a historical linguistic perspective -- The marking of definiteness in Romance -- Child morphology and morphophonemic change -- The evolution of genitive-accusative animate and personal nouns in Slavic dialects -- Zero in morphology: a means of making up for phonological losses? -- Paradigm coherence and the conditioning of sound change: Yiddish 'schwa-deletion' again -- The place of morphology in a universal cybernetic theory of language change -- Laws of analogy -- Encoding grammatical relations: acceptable and unacceptable non-distinctness -- The functional development of the verbal suffix +esc+ in Romance -- Paradigmatic displacement -- Morphological instability, with and without language contact -- Problems of morphology seen from the structuralist and functionalist point of view -- Words versus morphemes in morphological change: the case of Italian -iamo -- On gender change in linguistic borrowing (Old English) -- Morphological signalling of selection properties: transitiveness in Tocharian Β and A verbs -- Ways of morphologizing phonological rules -- Index of terms -- Index of languages -- Index of names