1. Preface; 2. General programme of the Conference; 3. Gothic obstruents: the limits of reconstruction (by Anderson, John M.); 4. Structure de l'enonce indo-europeen (by Bader, Francoise); 5. Il s'en va ou le francais, et pourquoi? (by Bailard, Joelle); 6. Attempting the reconstruction of negotion patterns in PIE (by Bernini, Giuliano); 7. Structure and origin of the "narrative" imperfect (by Bertinetto, Pier Marco); 8. The evolution of word order: A paedomorphic explanation (by Bichakjian, Bernard H.); 9. The evolution of future meaning (by Bybee, Joan L.); 10. Syntactic change and the lexicon (by Bynon, Theodora); 11. Die syntax der altesten lateinischen Prosa (by Calboli, Gualtiero); 12. Diachronic evidence and the affix-clitic distinction (by Carstairs-McCarthy, Andrew D.); 13. The syllable and phonological strength: Gradient loss of gemination in Corsican (by Cravens, Thomas D.); 14. Diachronic semantic processes in the middel voice (by Croft, William A.); 15. Drift and selective mechanisms in morphological change: the Eastern nilotic case (by Dimmendaal, Gerrit J.); 16. The diachronic relationship of morphology and syntax (by Disterheft, Dorothy); 17. Old English pa, temporal chains, and narrative structure (by Enkvist, Nils Erik); 18. The establishment of "by" to denote agency in Emglish passive constructions (by Fraser, Thomas H.K.); 19. From Indo-European perfect to Slavic perfect to Slavic preterite (by Galton, Herbert); 20. On doing comparative reconstruction with genetically unrelated languages (by Harris, John); 21. ALPHA(iota)epsilon and the prehistory of Greek noun accentuation (by Hoenigswald, Henry M.); 22. The instability of peripheral /e./, /o./, and /o./ in Dutch lects (by Hoppenbrouwers, Cor); 23. Structuralism and diachrony: the development of the indefinite article in English (by Hopper, Paul J.); 24. On methodology in syntactic reconstruction: reconstructing inter-clause syntax in prehistoric Indo-European (by Jeffers, Robert J.); 25. Considerazioni sulla cronologia relativa dei mutamenti fonetici (by Lazzeroni, Romano); 26. Time (by Lehmann, Winfred P.); 27. Auxiliary verbs in the universal theory of language change (by Ludtke, Helmut); 28. Patterns of case syncretism in Indo-European languages (by Luraghi, Silvia); 29. Integration of phonosymbolism with other categories of language change (by Malkiel, Yakov); 30. The grammaticalization of social relationship: the origin of number to encode deference (by Malsch, Derry L.); 31. From conversational to conventional implicature: the romanian pronouns of identity and their substitutes (by Manoliu, Maria M.); 32. Note su /s/ interconsonantica nei dialetti greci antichi (by Milani, Celestina); 33. The prosodic character of early schwa deletion in English (by Minkova, Donka); 34. Articulatory evolution (by Pagliuca, William); 35. Creolization and syntactic change in Romance (by Posner, Rebecca); 36. Syllabicity as a genus, Sievers' law as a species (by Prosdocimi, Aldo Luigi); 37. Die entwicklung von komplexen zu einfachen semantischen inhalten (by Reiter, Norbert); 38. A performance model for a natural theory of linguistic change (by Ronneberger-Sibold, Elke); 39. On "normal" full root structure and its historical development (by Rosen, Haiim B.); 40. The rise and fall of final devoicing (by Shannon, Thomas F.); 41. On the historical relation between mental and speech act verbs in English and Japanese (by Traugott, Elizabeth Closs); 42. On the persistence of imperfect grammars: clitic movement from Late Latin to Romance (by Wanner, Dieter); 43. The aim of morphological change is a good mixture - not a unifrom language type (by Werner, Otmar); 44. Syntactic and semantic space: the development of the French subjunctive (by Winters, Margaret E.); 45. The study of semantic change in early Romance (late Latin) (by Wright, Roger); 46. Paradigmentstrukturbedingungen: Aufbau und veranderung von flexionsparadigmen (by Wurzel, Wolfgang Ullrich); 47. Index of names; 48. Index of languages; 49. Index of subject matter