Papers from the Fifth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Galway, April 6–10 1981
Editor
This volume presents a selection of the best papers from the Fifth International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL), which was held in Galway, April 6–10 1981. These papers provide an overview of work in the field of historical linguistics, covering a wide variety of topics and languages.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 21] 1982. xxix, 527 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Preface | p. vii
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Liste des participants | p. x
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Endgültiges Programm der Konferenz | p. xviii
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On explaining language changeMartin B. Harris | p. 1
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Assibilation in Sino-KoreanEung-Jin Baek | p. 15
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Le français de demain: VSO ou VOSJoëlle Bailard | p. 20
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Why small children cannot change language on their own: suggestions from the English past tenseJoan L. Bybee and Dan I. Slobin | p. 29
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The analogical pressure of synonymy: the dual gender of Spanish mar ‘sea’Thomas D. Cravens | p. 38
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Subject raising in Old IrishDorothy Disterheft | p. 44
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The system of verbs involving a speaker-hearer relationship: come/go, bring/take, in Old and Middle EnglishThomas H.K. Fraser | p. 54
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Word order change in Dutch imparative clauses: the interaction between contextual and syntactic factorsMarinel Gerritsen | p. 62
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On the development of the modals and the epistemic function in EnglishLouis Goossens | p. 74
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Some phonological changes in Polynesian languagesR.B. Harlow | p. 98
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Ablaut and syntax in KartvelianAlice C. Harris | p. 110
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Shifting systems: evidence for systemic change in French historical phonologyJohn Hewson | p. 117
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Aspects of the evolution of relatives in RomancePaul Hirschbühler and María Luisa Rivero | p. 123
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On the historical continuity of linguistic systemsEugene Holman | p. 133
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Change of language as a prototype for change of linguisticsEsa Itkonen | p. 142
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Diachronic facts vs. synchronic fiction: historical linguistic evidence against assuming underlying grammatical uniformity for contemporary dialects of the same languageRichard D. Janda | p. 149
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Semantic change and etymologiesD.M. Job | p. 163
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Morphologycal influences on soundchangeSteve Johnson | p. 171
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The system of negation in later Middle English proseAndré Joly | p. 176
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Reductive phonetic developments as the trigger to typological change: two examples from the Finno-Ugrian languagesMikko Korhonen | p. 190
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Modern Irish grammars and the plural marker achaHeidi Ann Lazar-Meyn | p. 196
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Graphology and sound change in Old PrussianJules Levin | p. 201
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Iconicity in phonological changeBruce Mannheim and Madeleine Newfield | p. 211
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On the problem of historical interpretation: Verner’s law in gothicJames Milroy | p. 223
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The mistery of the vanished LaurentiniansMarianne Mithun | p. 230
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On the origin of the Portugese inflected infinitiveBruce Osborne | p. 243
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Schreibumwertung und die Methoden der historischen PhonologieHerbert Penzl | p. 249
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On the sources of Indo-European conjunctions of purpos, cause and resultW.J. Pepicello | p. 256
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A Neglected phonetic law: the reduction of the Indo-European laryngeals in internal syllables before yodGeorges-Jean Pinault | p. 265
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Explorations on syntactic change (relative clause formation strategies)Anna Giacalone Ramat | p. 283
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The reconstruction of language in its social context: methodology for a socio-historical linguistic theorySuzanne Romaine | p. 293
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Vivid language and language changeJanet E. Scott | p. 304
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From deontic to epistemic: an analysis of modals in the history of English, creoles, and language acquisitionSusan C. Shepherd | p. 316
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On short-term language change: developments in Irish morphologyNancy J. Stenson | p. 324
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Conversational pues in Spanish: a proces of degrammaticalization?Iraset Páez Urdaneta | p. 332
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Numerical and socio-linguistic perspectives of the p/pf-isogloss in South-Rhenish Franconian dialectsP. Sture Ureland | p. 341
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Historical metrics: the caesura in FrenchS. Paul Verluyten | p. 356
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Structural change and pidginization in the history of the Arabic languageKees Versteegh | p. 362
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Theories of language and the nature of evidence and explanation in historical linguisticsJana Vizmuller | p. 374
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From discourse to syntax: for in Early English causal clausesNancy Wiegand | p. 385
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Historical linguistics and metaphilologyH. Christoph Wolfart | p. 394
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On the historical roots of the philology and historical linguisticsBreandán Ö Buachalla | p. 425
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Scribal practise and historical phonologyHenning Andersen | p. 433
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Discussion | p. 442
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Concluding remarksElizabeth Closs Traugott | p. 460
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Index Fontium et Nominum | p. 467
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Index Linguarum | p. 508
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Index Rerum | p. 516
Subjects
Linguistics
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
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