Historical Linguistics 2011
Selected papers from the 20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Osaka, 25-30 July 2011
Editors
Ritsuko Kikusawa | National Museum of Ethnology, Japan/ The Graduate University of Advanced Studies, Japan
This volume of selected papers from the 20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (Osaka, Japan, July 2011) presents a set of stimulating and ground-breaking studies on a wide range of languages and language families. As the scope of studies that can be characterized as ‘Historical Linguistics’ has expanded, ICHL conferences have likewise seen a broadening of topics presented, and this conference was no exception, reflected by the inclusion in this volume of a plenary presentation on the grammaticalization of expressions of negation and gendered kinship in American Sign Language. Three other papers propose new views of the role of grammaticalization in English, Chinese, and Niger-Congo languages. Four of the papers discuss specific problems that arise in the comparison and reconstruction of linguistic features in a range of languages from Asia, Europe and South America. The last six studies deal with innovative approaches to the historical development of suppletion in Romance languages, possessive classifiers in Austronesian, universal quantifiers in Germanic, adjectival sequences in English, exaptation in Celtic and Early English, and drift in Ancient Egyptian.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 326] 2013. ix, 337 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Foreword and Acknowledgements | pp. vii–ix
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Editors’ introduction | pp. 1–12
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Part I. Grammaticalization
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The role of historical research in building a model of Sign Language typology, variation, and changeTed Supalla | pp. 15–42
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On the origin of Niger-Congo nominal classificationRoland Kießling | pp. 43–65
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A closer look at subjectification in the grammaticalization of English modals: From the main verb mo(o)t to the root modal mustKeisuke Sanada | pp. 67–82
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Subjectivity encoding in Taiwanese Southern MinI-Hsuan Chen | pp. 83–98
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Part II. Problems in historical comparison and reconstruction
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Emergence of the tone system in the Sanjiazi dialect of ManchuHaibo Wang | pp. 101–113
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Searching for undetected genetic links between the languages of South AmericaWillem F. H. Adelaar | pp. 115–128
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Reconstructing the category of “associated motion” in Tacanan languages (Amazonian Bolivia and Peru)Antoine Guillaume | pp. 129–151
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The mirage of apparent morphological correspondence: A case from Indo-EuropeanKazuhiko Yoshida | pp. 153–172
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Part III. Historical development of morphosyntactic features
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Analogy as a source of suppletionMatthew L. Juge | pp. 175–197
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The rise and demise of possessive classifiers in AustronesianFrank Lichtenberk | pp. 199–225
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Immediate-future readings of universal quantifier constructionsJack Hoeksema | pp. 227–241
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The historical development and functional characteristics of the go-adjective sequence in EnglishNoriko Matsumoto | pp. 243–265
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Recycling “junk”: A case for exaptation as a response to breakdownBettelou Los | pp. 267–288
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Sapirian ‘drift’ towards analyticity and long-term morphosyntactic change in Ancient EgyptianChris H. Reintges | pp. 289–328
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Language index | pp. 329–331
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Index of terms | pp. 333–337
Subjects
Linguistics
Main BIC Subject
CFF: Historical & comparative linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General