Analogy, Levelling, Markedness: Principles of Change in Phonology and Morphology (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs)

Ranging from tonogensis, stress shift, and quantity adjustment of paradigmatic levelling, allomorphy, and grammaticalization, this collection covers a wide speectrum of developments, primarily in Germanice, Romance, and Indo-Aryan. Although the notion "analogy" has been around for several centuries, different disciplines and different schools of thought have assigned disparate interpretations to the term.