Historical Linguistics 2009
Selected papers from the 19th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Nijmegen, 10-14 August 2009
Editors
The International Conference on Historical Linguistics has always been a forum that reflects the general state of the art in the field, and the 2009 edition, held in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, fully allows the conclusion that the field has been thriving over the years. The studies presented in this volume are an expression of ongoing theoretical discussions as well as new analytical approaches to the study of issues concerning language change. Taken together, they reflect some of the current challenges in the field, as well as the opportunities offered by judicious use of theoretical models and careful corpus-based work. The volume's contributions are organized under the following headings: I. General and Specific Issues of Language Change, II. Linguistic Variation and Change in Germanic, III. Linguistic Variation and Change in Greek, and IV. Linguistic Change in Romance.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 320] 2012. xxi, 404 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Foreword & Acknowledgements | pp. vii–viii
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Editors’ introduction | pp. ix–xxii
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Part I. General and specific issues of language change
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Competing reinforcements: When languages opt out of Jespersen’s CycleTheresa Biberauer | pp. 1–30
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On the reconstruction of experiential constructions in (Late) Proto-Indo-EuropeanVit Bubenik | pp. 31–48
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Criteria for differentiating inherent and contact-induced changes in language reconstructionJadranka Gvozdanović | pp. 49–68
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Misparsing and syntactic reanalysisJohn Whitman | pp. 69–88
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How different is prototype change?Margaret E. Winters and Geoffrey S. Nathan | pp. 89–106
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The syntactic reconstruction of alignment and word order: The case of Old JapaneseYuko Yanagida | pp. 107–128
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Part II. Linguistic variation and change in Germanic
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The Dutch-Afrikaans participial prefix ge-: A case of degrammaticalization?C. Jac Conradie | pp. 129–154
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Diachronic changes in long-distance dependencies: The case of DutchJack Hoeksema and Ankelien Schippers | pp. 155–170
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Changes in the use of the Frisian quantifiers ea/oait “ever” between 1250 and 1800Eric Hoekstra, Bouke Slofstra and Arjen P. Versloot | pp. 171–190
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On the development of the perfect (participle)Ida Larsson | pp. 191–210
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OV and V-to-I in the history of SwedishErik Magnusson Petzell | pp. 211–230
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Ethnicity as an independent factor of language variation across space: Trends in morphosyntactic patterns in spoken AfrikaansGerald Stell | pp. 231–252
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The sociolinguistics of spelling: A corpus-based case study of orthographical variation in nineteenth-century Dutch in FlandersRik Vosters, Gijsbert Rutten and Wim Vandenbussche | pp. 253–274
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Part III. Linguistic variation and change in Greek
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Dative loss and its replacement in the history of GreekAdam Cooper and Effi Georgala | pp. 275–292
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Word order variation in New Testament Greek wh-questionsAllison Kirk | pp. 293–314
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Part IV. Linguistic change in Romance
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The morphological evolution of infinitive, future and conditional forms in OccitanLouise Esher | pp. 315–332
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The evolution of the encoding of direction in the history of French: A quantitative approach to argument structure changeHeather Burnett and Mireille Tremblay | pp. 333–354
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Velle-type prohibitions in Latin: The rise and fall of a morphosyntactic conspiracyEdward Cormany | pp. 355–372
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The use and development of habere + infinitive in Latin: An LFG approachMari Johanne Hertzenberg | pp. 373–398
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Index | pp. 399–404
Subjects
Linguistics
Main BIC Subject
CFF: Historical & comparative linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General