Historical Linguistics 1993
Selected papers from the 11th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Los Angeles, 16–20 August 1993
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This volume contains a selection of 34 of the 96 papers presented at ICHL 1993, including several of the contributions to the workshop on Parameters and Typology organized jointly by Henning Andersen and David W. Lightfoot. Major topics represented are grammaticalization and functional renewal (illustrated with changes in romance, French, Pennsylvania German, Afrikaans, English, Finnish), changes in syntax (Indo-European, Indo-Aryan, Ancient Greek, Romanian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Japanese, Dutch, English) and discourse structure (Old Russian, Old French), morphology (German, Turkic), phonology (Romance, Italian, French, German, Old English, English). Several papers include sociolinguistic, areal, and typological perspectives on change; a few are specifically concerned with reconstruction or with the principles of reconstruction, and several demonstrate the continued importance of the philological methods in the study of texts.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 124] 1995. x, 460 pp.
Publishing status: Available
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Table of Contents
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Regrammaticalization and Regrammaticalization of the inchoative suffixAndrew Allen | p. 1
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Light shed on problems of Turkic conjugation: the northeast Turkic progressive present in — Ipča(t) and the ‘mixed’ conjugationGregory D.S. Anderson | p. 9
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On the history of relative clauses in French and some of its dialectsJulie Auger | p. 19
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Functional renewalLaurel J. Brinton | p. 33
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Passives and ergatives in middle Indo-AryanVit Bubenik | p. 49
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Evidence of grammaticalization in Pennsylvania GermanKate Burridge | p. 59
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Old froms for new concepts: the recategorization of possessive duplications in Mexican SpanishConcepción Company Company | p. 77
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On subjectification in modal adverbsC. Jac Conradie | p. 93
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Gender, class, and prestige in the spread of an allophonic ruleThomas D. Cravens and Luciano Giannelli | p. 105
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Reconstruction of the Proto-Romance syllableNaomi Cull | p. 117
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The development of word-final /b/ in EnglishAndrei Danchev | p. 133
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Areal linguistics in prehistory: evidence from Indo-European aspectBridget Drinka | p. 143
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The later stages in the development of the definite article: evidence from FrenchRichard Epstein | p. 159
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Parameters underlying the organization of medieval Russian textsJadranka Gvozdanović | p. 177
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What the choice of the overt nominalizer NO did to Mmodern Japanese syntax and semanticsKaoru Horie | p. 191
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On the categorical evolution: a case study in Spanish possessivesMasataka Ishikawa | p. 205
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Regression and creation in the double accusative in Ancient GreekBernard Jacquinod | p. 217
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Mophological reanalysis and typology: the case of the Greman r- plural and why English did not develop itDieter Kastovsky | p. 227
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On the grammaticization of the definite article SE in spoken FinnishRitva Laury | p. 239
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Identifying an Old French text with the help of dialect analysisLeena Löfstedt | p. 251
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Prototypically and agenthood in Indo-EuropeanSilvia Luraghi | p. 259
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Genetic congruence versus areal convergence: the misfortune of LAtin AD in RomanianMaria M. Manoliu | p. 269
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On the fate of adjectival declension in Overseas Dutch (with some notes on the history of Dutch)Jaap van Marle | p. 283
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Clitic placement from Old to Modern European PortugueseAna Maria Martins | p. 295
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A diachronic view of prepositional verbs of emotion in SpanishChantal Melis | p. 309
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Phonologically based mmorphological change: high-vowel deletion and pardigmatic implications in Old EnglishRobert W. Murray | p. 323
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Diachronic stable structural featuresJohanna Nichols | p. 337
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The diachronic distibution of bare and prepositional infinitives in EnglishJairo Nunes | p. 357
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Object shift in Old Spanish: a minimalist theory approachClaudia Parodi | p. 371
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Lexical diffusion as a guide to scribal intent: a comparison of ME “eo” and “e” spellings in the PETERBOROUGH CHRONICLE and the ORMULUMBetty S. Phillips | p. 379
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Verb-seconding in Old EnglishSusan Pintzuk | p. 387
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the thematic structure of the main clause in OLd French, OR versus SIPieter van Reenen and Lene Schøsler | p. 401
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on different ways of optimizing the sound shape of wordsElke Ronneberger-Sibold | p. 421
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Exaptation and grammaticalizationNigel Vincent | p. 433
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Author’s addresses | p. 447
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Index of names | p. 449
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Index of languages | p. 457
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Linguistics
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CF: Linguistics
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LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General