Historical Linguistics 1997

Selected papers from the 13th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Düsseldorf, 10–17 August 1997

Editors

Monika S. Schmid

| Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf

Jennifer R. Austin

| Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf

Dieter Stein

| Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf

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This volume presents a selection from the papers given at the 13th International Conference on Historical Linguistics. It offers a window on the current state of the art in historical linguistics: the papers cover a wide range of different languages, different language families, and different approaches to the study of linguistic change, ranging from optimality theory, theories of grammaticalization and the invisible hand, treatments of language contact and creolization to the linguistic consequences of political correctness. Among the languages under discussion are Akkadian, Catalan, Dutch, Finnish, Japanese, Sranan, Western Malayo-Polynesian, Yiddish, and a variety of Romance and Native American languages.

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 164] 1998. x, 409 pp.

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https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.164

Table of Contents

Sound Laws: Reactions Present and Past Arleta Adamska-Sałaciak	1
Passives in Western Malayo-Polynesian: An Asian Perspective Barry J. Blake	15
What can This Be?: A west African Contribution to Sranan Adrienne Bruyn	25
Grammmatical and Lexical Aspect in Akkadian and Proto-Semitic Vit Bubenik	41
Euphemism with Attitude: Politically Charged Language Change Kate Burridge	57
The Loss of the Voice Dimension Between Late Latin and Early Romance Michela Cennamo	77
How a Historical Linguist and a Native Speaker Understand a Complex Morphology Wallace Chafe	101
The Evolution of Grammar: Evidence from Indo-European Perfects Bridget Drinka	117
Yiddish and Hebrew: Borrowing Through Oral language Contact Elaine Gold	135
Degenerate Feet in Tacanan Languages: Unmarkedness in OT Haike Jacobs	149
The Evolution of Ó in Open Position: Parallel Developments in French and Dutch Dialects Thera de Jong	163
The Structure of ra-Deletion in Japanese Fusa Katada	175
Can Grammaticalization be Explained Invisible Handedly? Jurgen Klausenburger	191
Toward a ‘Standard Yiddish’ Pronounciation: An Instrumentally Aided Phonetic Analysis Anke Kleine	201
The Evolution of Adverbial Subordinators in Europe Bernd Kortmann	213
A corpus-Based Model for the Description of Language Change and Variation in Nominal Classification exemplified by Dutch Seventeenth Century Varieties Arjan van Leuvensteijn	229
Towards an Explanation of some Morphological Changes which ‘Should Never Have Happened’ Martin Maiden	241
On the Conservatism of Embedded Clauses Kenjirô Matsuda	255
Velars and Palatals in Old English Alliteration Donka Minkova	269
The Sequencing of Grammaticization Effects: A Twist from North America Marianne Mithun	291
What Research on Creole Genesis Can Contribute to Historical Linguistics Salikoko S. Mufwene	315
The Borrowing of Meaning as a Cause of Internal Syntactic Change Ellen F. Prince	339
Grammaticalization of Complex Verbal Constructions in Finnish Taru Salminen	363
Two Models for the Study of Language Contact: A Psycho-Linguistic perspective Versus a Socio-Cultural Perspective Caroline Smits	377
A Motivated Account of the Semantic Evolution of Watch and its Catalan Equivalents Isabel Verdaguer and Anna Poch	391
Subject Index	401
Index of Languages	407

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Subjects

Linguistics

Historical linguistics

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

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

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 98036271