Historical Linguistics 1999

Selected papers from the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, 9–13 August 1999

Editor

Laurel J. Brinton

| University of British Columbia

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This is a selection of papers from the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics held August 9-13, 1999, at the University of British Columbia. From the rich program and the many papers given during this conference, the present twenty-three papers were carefully selected to display the state of current research in the field of historical linguistics.

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 215] 2001. xii, 389 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.215

Table of Contents

Preface	xi–xii
How far has far from become grammaticalized? Minoji Akimoto	1–11
Recent advances in the reconstruction of the Proto-Munda verb Gregory D.S. Anderson and Norman H. Zide	13–30
Multivariable reanalysis and phonological split Janice M. Aski	31–47
Are old English conjunct clauses really verb-final? Kristin Bech	49–62
Alternation according to person in Italo-Romance Delia Bentley and Thórhallur Eythórsson	63–74
On ablaut and aspect in the history of Aramaic Vit Bubenik	75–88
Language change and the phonological lexicon of Korean Young-mee Yu Cho	89–104
Animals and vegetables, Uto-Aztecan noun derivation, semantic classification, and cultural history Karen Dakin	105–117
Gradience and linguistic change David Denison	119–144
Distinctive vowel length in Old French: Evidence and Implications Randall Gess	145–156
Remains of a submerged continent: Preaspiration in the languages of northwest Europe Gunnar Ólafur Hansson	157–174
Rapid change among expletive polarity items Jack Hoeksema	175–186
The conversational factor in language change: From prenominal to postnominal demonstratives Maria M. Manoliu	187–205
On the origin of the Portuguese inflected infinitive: A new perspective on an enduring debate Ana Maria Martins	207–222
Innovation of the indirect reflexive in Old French D. Gary Miller	223–239
Lexical forces shaping the evolution of grammar Marianne Mithun	241–252
Why “me” and “thee”? Johanna Nichols	253–276
The English s-genitive: Animacy, topicality and possessive relationship in a diachronic perspective Anette Rosenbach	277–292
Default inheritance hierarchies and the evolution of inflectional classes Gregory T. Stump	293–307
On the eve of a new paradigm: The current challenges to comparative linguistics in a Kuhnian perspective Marie-Lucie Tarpent	309–324
Modeling koineization Donald N. Tuten	325–336
Coreference in the Popolocan languages Annette Veerman-Leichsenring	337–350
Atlantis Semitica: Structural contact features in Celtic and English Theo Vennemann	351–369
Index of languages and language families	371–375
Index of names	377–383
Index of subjects	385–389

“[...] their quality makes the reading of these papers a pleasure [...] many of the papers exhibit an integrationist approach, in which evidence from different areas of linguistic analysis is combined where required by the materials and research questions.”

Margaret J-M Sonmez, Middle East Technical University, Ankara

“[...] anyone with any sort of interest in the field of historical linguistics should have no trouble finding something informative, enlightening, and/or thought-provoking to peruse in this excellent volume.”

Sharon A. Myers, Texas Tech University, in Language Vol. 79.2 (2003)

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Baerman, Matthew, Dunstan Brown & Greville G. Corbett

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Brinton, Laurel J. & Elizabeth Closs Traugott

2005. In Lexicalization and Language Change,

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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: 2001035020