Perspectives on Historical Linguistics

Papers from a conference held at the meeting of the Language Theory Division, Modern Language Assn., San Francisco, 27–30 December 1979

Editors

Winfred P. Lehmann

Yakov Malkiel

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This volume presents seven extensive essays by specialists in their respective fields of historical linguistics. The first essay after the Introduction states the principles presented in Directions for Historical Linguistics (1968) and assesses the progress made since then towards constructing a general theory of language change. Like the following essays on phonology and morphology, it poses new questions that have arisen in the increasingly ambitious research. Historical attention to discourse, the topic of the next essay, is virtually new, though it too finds predecessors among philologists who devoted themselves to texts. Finally, two essays treat etymology, one concentrating on the rigorously investigated Romance field, the other on Indo-European, especially on new insights prompted by attention to Hittite.

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 24] 1982. xii, 379 pp.

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https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.24

Table of Contents

Prefatory note	v
Table of contents	ix
Charts, figures and tables	x
Abbreviations	xi-xii
1. Introduction: diachronic linguistics Winfred P. Lehmann	1
2. Building on empirical foundations William Labov	17
3. A semiotic model of diachronic process phonology Wolfgang U. Dressler	93
4. Semantically-marked root morphemes in diachronic morphology Yakov Malkiel	133
5. From propositional to textual and expressive meanings; some semantic-pragmatic aspects of grammaticalization Elizabeth Closs Traugott	245
6. Romance Etymology Steven N. Dworkin	273
7. Indo-european etymology with special reference to grammatical category Carol F. Justus	291
Bibliography	329
Subject index	373
Author index	377

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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: 83146399