Papers from the Fifth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Galway, April 6–10 1981

• Preface | p. vii
• Liste des participants | p. x
• Endgültiges Programm der Konferenz | p. xviii
• On explaining language change
  Martin B. Harris | p. 1
• Assibilation in Sino-Korean
  Eung-Jin Baek | p. 15
• Le français de demain: VSO ou VOS
  Joëlle Bailard | p. 20
• Why small children cannot change language on their own: suggestions from the English past tense
  Joan L. Bybee and Dan I. Slobin | p. 29
• The analogical pressure of synonymy: the dual gender of Spanish mar ‘sea’
  Thomas D. Cravens | p. 38
• Subject raising in Old Irish
  Dorothy Disterheft | p. 44
• The system of verbs involving a speaker-hearer relationship: come/go, bring/take, in Old and Middle English
  Thomas H.K. Fraser | p. 54
• Word order change in Dutch imparative clauses: the interaction between contextual and syntactic factors
  Marinel Gerritsen | p. 62
• On the development of the modals and the epistemic function in English
  Louis Goossens | p. 74
• Some phonological changes in Polynesian languages
  R.B. Harlow | p. 98
• Ablaut and syntax in Kartvelian
  Alice C. Harris | p. 110
• Shifting systems: evidence for systemic change in French historical phonology
  John Hewson | p. 117
• Aspects of the evolution of relatives in Romance
  Paul Hirschbühler and María Luisa Rivero | p. 123
• On the historical continuity of linguistic systems
  Eugene Holman | p. 133
• Change of language as a prototype for change of linguistics
  Esa Itkonen | p. 142
• Diachronic facts vs. synchronic fiction: historical linguistic evidence against assuming underlying grammatical uniformity for contemporary dialects of the same language
  Richard D. Janda | p. 149
• Semantic change and etymologies
  D.M. Job | p. 163
• Morphologycal influences on soundchange
  Steve Johnson | p. 171
• The system of negation in later Middle English prose
  André Joly | p. 176
• Reductive phonetic developments as the trigger to typological change: two examples from the Finno-Ugrian languages
  Mikko Korhonen | p. 190
• Modern Irish grammars and the plural marker acha
  Heidi Ann Lazar-Meyn | p. 196
• Graphology and sound change in Old Prussian
  Jules Levin | p. 201
• Iconicity in phonological change
  Bruce Mannheim and Madeleine Newfield | p. 211
• On the problem of historical interpretation: Verner’s law in gothic
  James Milroy | p. 223
• The mistery of the vanished Laurentinians
  Marianne Mithun | p. 230
• On the origin of the Portugese inflected infinitive
  Bruce Osborne | p. 243
• Schreibumwertung und die Methoden der historischen Phonologie
  Herbert Penzl | p. 249
• On the sources of Indo-European conjunctions of purpos, cause and result
  W.J. Pepicello | p. 256
• A Neglected phonetic law: the reduction of the Indo-European laryngeals in internal syllables before yod
  Georges-Jean Pinault | p. 265
• Explorations on syntactic change (relative clause formation strategies)
  Anna Giacalone Ramat | p. 283
• The reconstruction of language in its social context: methodology for a socio-historical linguistic theory
  Suzanne Romaine | p. 293
• Vivid language and language change
  Janet E. Scott | p. 304
• From deontic to epistemic: an analysis of modals in the history of English, creoles, and language acquisition
  Susan C. Shepherd | p. 316
• On short-term language change: developments in Irish morphology
  Nancy J. Stenson | p. 324
• Conversational pues in Spanish: a proces of degrammaticalization?
  Iraset Páez Urdaneta | p. 332
• Numerical and socio-linguistic perspectives of the p/pf-isogloss in South-Rhenish Franconian dialects
  P. Sture Ureland | p. 341
• Historical metrics: the caesura in French
  S. Paul Verluyten | p. 356
• Structural change and pidginization in the history of the Arabic language
  Kees Versteegh | p. 362
• Theories of language and the nature of evidence and explanation in historical linguistics
  Jana Vizmuller | p. 374
• From discourse to syntax: for in Early English causal clauses
  Nancy Wiegand | p. 385
• Historical linguistics and metaphilology
  H. Christoph Wolfart | p. 394
• On the historical roots of the philology and historical linguistics
  Breandán Ö Buachalla | p. 425
• Scribal practise and historical phonology
  Henning Andersen | p. 433
• Discussion | p. 442
• Concluding remarks
  Elizabeth Closs Traugott | p. 460
• Index Fontium et Nominum | p. 467
• Index Linguarum | p. 508
• Index Rerum | p. 516

Cited by 2 other publications

Romaine, Suzanne

1983. Anthony Warner, Complementation in Middle English syntax and the methodology of historical syntax. London: Croom Helm, 1982. Pp. 266.. Journal of Linguistics 19:2 ► pp. 478 ff.

Traugott, Elizabeth Closs & Richard B. Dasher

2001. Regularity in Semantic Change,

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