Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Stanford, March 26–30 1979

Editors

Elizabeth Closs Traugott

Rebecca Labrum

Susan C. Shepherd

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The studies in this volume are revised versions of a selection from the papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, held at Stanford University on 26–30 March 1979. Papers at this conference, and in this volume, treat aspects of all current topics in historical linguistics, including topics that are only recently considered relevant, such as acquisition, structure, and language use.

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 14] 1980. x, 437 pp.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	v
preface	1–6
Typology as instigator and regulator of linguistic change Eugene Holman	7–16
Explaining universals and their exceptions Lyle Campbell	17–26
Continuity of transmission and genetic relationship Sarah G. Thomason	27–35
Chance cognition: A probabilistic model and decision procedure for historical inference John S. Justeson and Laurence D. Stephens	37–45
Redundancy as explanation in historical linguistics William M. Christie, Jr.	47–51
The structure of meaning in semiotic perspective Michael Shapiro	53–59
Pragmatic and sociolinguitsic bias in semantic change Flora Klein-Andreu	61–74
The marking of definiteness: A diachronic perspective Martin B. Harris	75–86
A functional approach to syntactic reconstruction Marianne Mithun	87–96
Implications of pre-complementizers with hittite šak-/šek- ‘know’ Carol F. Justus	97–106
On word order in irish Anders Ahlqvist	107–113
Marked and unmarked word order in old norse Marit Christoffersen	115–121
An analysis of the rise of SOV patterns in dutch Marinel Gerritsen	123–136
Developments in the dutch left-dislocation structures and the verb-second constraint Frank Jansen	137–149
from passive too active in kurdish via the ergative construction Theodora Bynon	151–163
On the loss of a rule of syntax Alice C. Harris	165–171
The development of accusative-infinitive constructions W.J. Pepicello	175–182
Syntactic diffusion Mario Saltarelli	183–191
infinitival complements to verbs of motion in ontarian and quebec french Michael Canale, Raymond Mougeon and Édouard Beniak	193–198
Verb compounds in greek: the elimination of a transformational rule Geoffrey C. Horrocks	199–209
The role of perception in restructuring and relexicalization: two case histories Robert K. Herbert	211–220
the evolution of clitics Robert J. Jeffers and Arnold M. Zwicky	221–231
Circumfixes and typological change Joseph H. Greenberg	233–241
On the decline of declensional systems: the overall loss of OE nominal case inflections and the ME reanalysis of — es as his Richard D. Janda	243–252
Conditions on object marking: stages in the history of the east slavic Genitive-accusative Emily Klenin	253–257
Reduction of case markers in Lithuanian: data for discussion Janine K. Reklaitis	259–271
Analogy and inflectional affix replacement Max W. Wheeler	273–283
Russian conjugation: Acquisition and evolutive change Henning Andersen	285–301
Sound change and child language Marilyn Vihman	303–320
The fluctuating intensity of a ‘sound law’ Yakov Malkiel	321–330
Linguistic reasons for phonetic archaisms in romance Roger Wright	331–337
Early intervocalic voicing in tuscan Dieter Wanner and Thomas D. Cravens	339–347
The transition problem: lexical diffusion vs. variable rules John Reighard	349–354
Lexical alternation and the history of english: evidence from an urban vernacular James Milroy	355–362
Pragmatic features and phonological change Martha Laferriere	363–369
Tonal accents in basque and greek Alice Wyland Grundt	371–379
Acquisition and development of “gastarbeiterdeutsch” by migrant workers and their children in germany Carol W. Pfaff	381–395
Pidginization and foreigner talk: chinese pidgin russian Johanna Nichols	397–407
Concluding statement Paul Kiparsky	409–417
Index of names	419–428
Index of languages	429–432
Index of subject matter	433–437

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Subjects

Linguistics

Historical linguistics

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

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