Papers from the VIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Poznań, 22–26 August 1983

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Jacek Fisiak

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This volume presents a selection of papers from the 6th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL), which was held in 1983, in Poznań, Poland.

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 34] 1985. xxiii, 622 pp.

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https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.34

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
List of participants	xi
Conference programme	xvii
Divergence and convergence in linguistic evolution Henrik Birnbaum	1
Areal linguistics and its implications for historical linguistics Lyle Campbell	25
Paradigm economy in Latin nouns Andrew D. Carstairs-McCarthy	57
Ablaut: a phoenix in the history of Afrikaans C. Jac Conradie	71
An analysis and synthesis in sound change Andrei Danchev	83
On the diachrony of subtractive poerations: evidence for semiotically based models of natural phonology and natural morphology from northern anatolien greek dialects Wolfgang U. Dressler and Veneeta Acson	105
Did old English have a middle voice? Thomas H.K. Fraser	129
The vowel /a:/ in English Hubert Gburek	139
Framing the linguistic actions scene in Old and Present-day English: CWEþAN, SECGAN, SP(R)ECAN and Present-day English SPEAK, TALK, SAY and TELL compared Louis Goossens	149
Lexical restructuring: rule loss versus rule intersection; evidence from Italian Rita de Grandis	171
Theories of sound change fail if they try predict too much Jadranka Gvozdanovic	183
Chance and necessity in diachronic syntax — word order typologies and the position of modern Persian relative clauses Hubert Haider	199
Umlaut as a harmony process Camiel S.J.N. Hamans	217
Divergent patterns of word prder in contemporary French Martin B. Harris	235
Articulatory modes and typological universals: the puzzle of Bantu ejectives ans aspirates Robert K. Herbert	251
Velar segments in Old English and Old Irish Raymond Hickey	267
On the semasiologization of phonological rules: the semiotic evolution of Finnish consonant gradation Eugene Holman	281
Another explanation for the development of s before l in Norwegian Ernst Håkon Jahr	291
Wilhelm Scherer’s Zur geschichte der deutschen Sprache: a milestone in 19th-century linguistics Kurt R. Jankowsky	301
Proto-Indo-European consonantism: methodological and further typological concerns Brian D. Joseph	313
The place of Saussure’s Memoire in the development of historical linguistics E.F.K. Koerner	323
Indo-European numerals and the sexagesimal system Witold Mańczak	347
Absolute versus relative comparison: typology and development Thomas Markey	353
Diachronic morphologization: the circumstances surrounding the birth, growth and decline of noun incorporation Marianne Mithun	365
For a diachrony-in-synchrony analysis Ruta Nagucka	394
On the possible clusters of mb, nd, and ŋg in Proto- Japanese Fred C.C. Peng	409
Are there dysfunctional changes? Anna Giacalone Ramat	427
The Indo-European origin of the Balti Slavic — ē — and — a- preterite Jens Elmegård Rasmussen	441
Variability in word formation patterns and productivity in the American South Edgar W. Schneider	467
Rule ordering and the dynamics of diatopic language variation Johan Taeldeman	489
Le développement d’un auxiliaire modal en yiddish: lozn ‘laiser’ Moshe Taube	499
Confrontation and association Elizabeth Closs Traugott	515
The bifurcation theory of the Germanic and German consonant shifts: synopsis and some further thoughts Theo Vennemann	527
Prosodic structures and the development of French schwa S. Paul Verluyten	549
On the origins and developments of American English Wolfgang Viereck	561
Quelques problèmes des recherche étymologiques sur les emprunts lexicaux Bogdan Walczak	571
Morphologische Natürlichkeit und morphologischer Wandel. Zur vorhersagbarkeit von sprachveranderüngen Wolfgang Ullrich Wurzel	587
Anders Ahlqvist: Summing up	601
Index of languages	607
Index of names	612

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Subjects

Linguistics

Historical linguistics

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

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

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