Historical Linguistics 2005

Selected papers from the 17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Madison, Wisconsin, 31 July - 5 August 2005

Editors

Joseph C. Salmons

| University of Wisconsin, Madison

Shannon Dubenion-Smith

| University of Wisconsin, Madison

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This volume contains 22 revised papers originally presented at the 17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, held August 2005 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. The papers cover a broad range of languages, including well-studied languages of Europe but also Aramaic, Zoque and Uto-Aztecan, Japanese and Korean, Afrikaans, and the Pilbara languages of Australia. The theoretical approaches taken are equally diverse, often bringing together aspects of ‘formal’ and ‘functional’ theories in a single contribution. Many of the chapters provide fresh data, including several drawing on data from electronic corpora. Topics range from traditional comparative reconstruction to prosodic change and the role of processing in syntactic change.

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 284] 2007. viii, 413 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.284

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii–viii
Part I. Grammaticalization
Lexicalization and grammaticalization all over again Laurel J. Brinton and Elizabeth Closs Traugott	3–19
Grammaticalization as reduction: Focus constructions in Chiapas Zoque Jan Terje Faarlund	21–31
Metaphor and teleology do not drive grammaticalization Matthew L. Juge	33–48
Part II. Syntax and semantics
Processing factors in syntactic variation and change: Clitics in Medieval and Renaissance Spanish Miriam Bouzouita	51–71
Dynamic Syntax and dialogue modelling: Preliminaries for a dialogue-driven account of syntactic change Ruth M. Kempson and Ronnie Cann	73–101
An economy approach to the triggering of the Russian instrumental predicate case Nerea Madariaga	103–117
Change and variation in ga/no conversion in Tokyo Japanese Satoshi Nambu and Kenjirô Matsuda	119–131
Perfect change: Synchrony meets diachrony Marie-Eve Ritz	133–147
Variable use of negation in Middle Low German John D. Sundquist	149–166
Is there a DP in Old English? Johanna L. Wood	167–187
Part III. Morphology
Some semantic and pragmatic aspects of case-loss in Old French Richard Ashdowne and John Charles Smith	191–205
The final stages of deflection: The case of Afrikaans het "have" C. Jac Conradie	207–221
Demonstrative paradigm splitting in the Pilbara languages of Western Australia Alan Dench	223–237
Infinitival forms in Aramaic Steven E. Fassberg	239–256
The role of productivity in word-formation change Carmen Scherer	257–271
Part IV. Phonetics and phonology
Structured imbalances in the emergence of the Korean vowel system Sang-Cheol Ahn and Gregory Iverson	275–293
Final features and proto-Uto-Aztecan: A contribution using morphological reconstruction Karen Dakin	295–310
Facts, theory and dogmas in historical linguistics: Vowel quantity from Latin to Romance Michele Loporcaro	311–336
On the irregularity of Open Syllable Lengthening in German B. Richard Page	337–350
The resilience of prosodic templates in the history of West Germanic Laura Catharine Smith	351–365
Part V: Variation
Urban interactions and written standards in Early Modern German Bruce H. Spencer	369–384
The Hollandish roots of Pella Dutch in Iowa Pieter van Reenen	385–401
Language index	403–404
Name index	405–409
Subject index	411–413

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Subjects

Linguistics

Historical linguistics

BIC Subject: CFF – Historical & comparative linguistics

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

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2007012738 | Marc record