FOLIA LINGUISTICA HISTORICA

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1 2015 VOLUME 36 FOLIA LINGUISTICA HISTORICA ACTA SOCIETATIS LINGUISTICAE EUROPAEAE EDITOR Nikolaus Ritt

2 EDITORIAL TEAM Klaus Hofmann Elnora ten Wolde Maria Valencia Cuberos Eva Zehentner EDITORIAL BOARD Anders Ahlqvist Sydney, Australia Henning Andersen Los Angeles, CA, USA Brigitte L. M. Bauer (Review Editor) Austin, TX, USA Bert Cornillie Leuven, Belgium Wolfgang Ulrich Dressler Vienna, Austria Teresa Fanego Santiago de Compostela, Spain Jacek Fisiak Poznań, Poland Piotr Gąsiorowski Poznań, Poland Hans Heinrich Hock Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA Johanna Laakso Vienna, Austria Roger Lass Cape Town, South Africa John Charles Smith (Squib Editor) Oxford, UK

3 SOCIETAS LINGUISTICA EUROPAEA Founded in 1966 for the fostering, in European countries and elsewhere, of the scientific and scholarly study of language in all its aspects. Since the elections of 2015 in Leiden, the following persons now serve as Officers or members of Committees: President Vice-President President-Elect Secretary Treasurer Conference Manager Editor FL Editor FLH Executive Committee Martin Haspelmath, Leipzig (2016) Marianne Mithun, Santa Barbara (2016) Martin Hilpert, Neuchâtel (2016) Dik Bakker, Amsterdam Ana Díaz-Negrillo, Granada Hubert Cuyckens, Leuven Muriel Norde, Berlin the preceding and Ekkehard König, Berlin (2016) Vladimir Plungian, Moscow (2016) Dunstan Brown, York (2017) Magdalena Wrembel, Poznań (2017) Jeanette Sakel, Bristol (2018) Nominating Committee Agnieszka Kiełkiewicz, Poznań (2016) Arie Verhagen, Leiden (2017) Elena Smirnova, Hannover (2018) Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy, Murcia (2019) Matti Miestamo, Helsinki (2020) Scientific Committee Maria Josep Cuenca, Valencia (2017) Salomé Gutiérrez Morales, Xalapa (2017) Silvia Luraghi, Pavia (2018) Balthasar Bickel, Zürich (2019) To join SLE and receive FOLIA LINGUISTICA HISTORICA please consult the SLE website. Dues for personal membership of the society are per year, 20 for students, and 10 for members from economically challenged countries. For institutional subscriptions please contact De Gruyter at

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5 Folia Linguistica Historica 2015 Volume 36 Contents Rhona Alcorn Pronoun innovation in Middle English 1 Luca Ciucci and Pier Marco Bertinetto A diachronic view of Zamucoan verb inflection 19 Alessandro De Angelis and Annamaria Chilà A new interpretation of Lachmann s Law 89 Jasper De Kind, Sebastian Dom, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver and Koen Bostoen Event-centrality and the pragmatics semantics interface in Kikongo: From predication focus to progressive aspect and vice versa 113 Guillaume Jacques The origin of the causative prefix in Rgyalrong languages and its implication for proto-sino-tibetan reconstruction 165 Kamil Kaźmierski Exaptation and phonological change 199 Mikhail Kopotev Reconstruction and idiomaticity: The origin of Russian verbless clauses reconsidered 219 Fernando O. de Carvalho The historical phonology of Mawé glides 245 Reviews Giuliano Bernini David Willis, Christopher Lucas, and Anne Breitbarth, eds The history of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean 271

6 2015 Volume 36 Folia Linguistica Historica John Hewson Coulter H. George Expressions of time in Ancient Greek 279 John Hewson Kim Gerdes, Eva Hajičová & Leo Wanner, eds Dependency Linguistics. Recent advances in linguistic theory using dependency structures 287 Todd B. Krause IE.com. Websites relevant to Indo-European Historical Linguistics 297