Historical Linguistics 2013
Selected papers from the 21st International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oslo, 5-9 August 2013
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The International Conference on Historical Linguistics is the main conference for specialists in language change, and the 2013 conference in Oslo drew more than 300 participants, with 182 papers presented in the general session. The 16 papers selected for inclusion in this volume from the general session of ICHL 2013 not only provide a clear picture of the state of the art in various subfields of historical linguistics but also present recent insights in diachronic phonology, typology, morphology and morphosyntax. The languages and families covered include English, German, Scandinavian, French, Occitan, Portuguese, Sardinian, Spanish, Ancient Greek, Old Japanese and Austronesian. The volume will be useful to any linguist with an interest in diachronic matters as well as general linguistic theory.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 334] 2015. ix, 327 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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IntroductionDag T.T. Haug | pp. vii–ix
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Phonology
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A Phonological motivation behind the diatonic stress shift in Modern EnglishRyuichi Hotta | pp. 3–18
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Vowel reduction in verbs in King Alfred’s Pastoral CareSverre Stausland Johnsen | pp. 19–40
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The development of early Middle English ō: Spelling evidenceGjertrud Flermoen Stenbrenden | pp. 41–52
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The diachronic development of stød and tonal accent in North GermanicAllison Wetterlin and Aditi Lahiri | pp. 53–68
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The evolution of the (alveolo)palatal lateral consonant in Spanish and PortugueseAndre Zampaulo | pp. 69–86
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Diachronic typology
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Evaluating prehistoric and early historic linguistic contactsJadranka Gvozdanović | pp. 89–108
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Patterns in the diffusion of nomenclature systems: Australian subsections in comparison to European days of the weekHarold Koch | pp. 109–132
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Morphology
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Morphological evidence for the paradigmatic status of infinitives in French and OccitanXavier Bach and Louise Esher | pp. 135–154
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Constructional change at the interface of cognition, culture, and language use: A diachronic corpus study of German nominalization patternsStefan Hartmann | pp. 155–176
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Morphosyntax
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Stages in deflexion and the Norwegian dativeIvar Berg | pp. 179–194
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Differential Object Marking in Old Japanese: A corpus-based studyBjarke Frellesvig, Stephen W. Horn and Yuko Yanagida | pp. 195–212
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The grammaticalization of progressive constructions with a focus on the English progressiveKristin Killie | pp. 213–232
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Hate and anger, love and desire: The construal of emotions in Homeric GreekSilvia Luraghi and Eleonora Sausa | pp. 233–256
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The argument indexing of early Austronesian verbs: A reconstructional myth?Malcolm D. Ross | pp. 257–280
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The syntax of mood constructions in Old Japanese: A corpus-based studyKerri L. Russell and Peter Sells | pp. 281–302
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Medieval Sardinian: New evidence for syntactic change from Latin to RomanceSam Wolfe | pp. 303–324
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Index | pp. 325–327
Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFF: Historical & comparative linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General