Morphology and Language History

In honour of Harold Koch

Editors

Claire Bowern | Yale University

Bethwyn Evans | University of Manchester

Luisa Miceli | University of Western Australia

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This volume aims to make a contribution to codifying the methods and practices linguists use to recover language history, focussing predominantly on historical morphology. The volume includes studies on a wide range of languages: not only Indo-European, but also Austronesian, Sinitic, Mon-Khmer, Basque, one Papuan language family, as well as a number of Australian families. Few collections are as cross-linguistic as this, reflecting the new challenges which have emerged from the study of languages outside those best known from historical linguistics. The contributors illustrate shared methodological and theoretical issues concerning genetic relatedness (that is, the use of morphological evidence for classification and subgrouping), reconstruction and processes of change with a diverse range of data. The volume is in honour of Harold Koch, who has long combined innovative research on understudied languages with methodological rigour and codification of practices within the discipline.

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 298] 2008. x, 364 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.298

Table of Contents

Contributors' addresses | pp. vii–ix

Introduction

Claire Bowern, Bethwyn Evans, Grace Koch and Luisa Miceli | pp. 1–11

Part I. Genetic relatedness

1. Western Torres Strait language classification and development

Barry Alpher, Geoffrey O’Grady and Claire Bowern | pp. 15–30

2. The classification of Pinikura, Western Australia

Peter Austin | pp. 31–41

3. Bound pronominals in the West Papuan languages

Mark Donohue | pp. 43–58

4. Alawa and its neighbours: Enigma variations 1 and 2

Margaret Sharpe | pp. 59–69

5. Reconstructing pre-Warumungu pronominals

Jane Simpson | pp. 71–87

Part II. Reconstruction

6. Splitting vs. lumping in morphological analysis: Evidence from Greek

Avery D. Andrews | pp. 91–97

7. Pronominal accretions in Pama-Nyungan

Paul Black | pp. 99–106

8. Associated eating and movement: further examination of Yuwaalaraay Gamilaraay verb suffixes

John Giacon | pp. 107–121

9. The origin of conjugation markers in Australian languages

Mark Harvey | pp. 123–137

10. Some remarks on negatives in Southeastern Australia

Luise Hercus and Stephen Morey | pp. 139–154

11. *gṷes-, *(z)g ṷes-, *(s)g ṷesh2-? The PIE root for 'extinguish/go out'

Jay H. Jasanoff | pp. 155–166

12. The language of Central Australian Aboriginal songs

Grace Koch and Myfany Turpin | pp. 167–183

13. The origin of noun classes in Worrorran languages

William B. McGregor | pp. 185–200

14. Hittite duwān (parā)

H. Craig Melchert | pp. 201–209

15. Morphological reconstruction and Australian languages

Luisa Miceli | pp. 211–219

16. Warlpiri verb roots in comparative perspective

David Nash | pp. 221–234

17. Oujiang Wu tones and acoustic reconstruction

Phil Rose | pp. 235–250

18. Issues in the morphological reconstruction of Proto-Mon-Khmer

Paul J. Sidwell | pp. 251–265

Part III. Processes of change

19. Case selection Old and New Basque

Cathryn Donohue | pp. 269–280

20. Third person plural as a morphological zero: Object marking in Marovo

Bethwyn Evans | pp. 281–298

21. The morphological development of the perfect in Jersey Norman French

Anthony J. Liddicoat and Timothy Jowan Curnow | pp. 299–312

22. Grand-daddy morphs: The importance of suffixes in reconstructing Pama-Nyungan kinship

Patrick McConvell | pp. 313–327

23. Morphology of the eggs, and what it can tell us about Romanian nominal inflection

Kim Schulte | pp. 329–339

24. The refunctionalisation of first person plural inflection in Tiwi

John Charles Smith | pp. 341–348

25. A chain vowel raising in the early history of Chinese

Xiaonong Zhu | pp. 349–354

Index of languages | pp. 355–359

Index of subjects | pp. 361–364

“Comparative studies of Australian languages have recurrently suffered either from a lack of methodological rigour, or from the belief that the comparative method simply does not apply on this continent. Over three decades Harold Koch's patient and painstaking work, by bringing an Indo-Europeanist training to bear on what appear to be intractable problems, is a welcome corrective to these trends. The papers in this volume pay a suitable tribute to his work, ranging over a number of philological problems in Australian languages with a leavening of other reconstructive work on Hittite, Papuan, Mon-Khmer, Basque and Sino-Tibetan. There is a particular emphasis on morphological reconstruction, which is at the same time a still-underdeveloped aspect of the comparative method and the likely key to many problems in comparative Australian linguistics.”

Nick Evans, Professor of Linguistics, Australian National University

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2018. Exaptation, Refunctionalization, Decapitalization—BE + Past Participle with Intransitive Verbs in Mediaeval and Early Modern Spanish. Languages 3:4 ► pp. 43 ff.

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2015. Early Descriptions of Pama-Nyungan Ergativity. Historiographia Linguistica 42:2-3 ► pp. 335 ff.

Robbeets, Martine & Walter Bisang

2014. Chapter 1. When paradigms change. In Paradigm Change [Studies in Language Companion Series, 161], ► pp. 1 ff.

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