Perspectives on Language Structure and Language Change
Studies in honor of Henning Andersen
Editors
This volume centers on three important theoretical concepts for the study of language change and the ways in which language structure emerges and turns into new structure: reanalysis, actualization, and indexicality. Reanalysis is a part of ongoing everyday language use, a process through which language is reproduced and changed. Actualization refers to the processes through which a reanalyzed structure spreads throughout single communities and society. Indexicality covers the way in which parts of a linguistic system can point to other parts of the system, both syntagmatically and paradigmatically. The inclusion of indexicality leads to fine-grained analysis in morphology, word order, and constructional syntax.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 345] 2019. ix, 419 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Preface | pp. ix–9
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Perspectives on language structure and language change: An introductionLars Heltoft, Iván Igartua, Brian Joseph, Kirsten Jeppesen Kragh and Lene Schøsler | pp. 1–10
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Part I. On the theory of language change
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Andersen (1973) and dichotomies of changeHope C. Dawson and Brian D. Joseph | pp. 13–34
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Induction and tradition: “As time goes by …” – Play it again!Ole Nedergaard Thomsen | pp. 35–79
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Approaching the typology and diachrony of morphological reversalsIván Igartua | pp. 81–106
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Deconstructing markedness in sound change typology: Notes on θ > f and f > θJuliette Blevins | pp. 107–122
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Part II. Indexicality
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Diachronic morphology, indexical function and a critique of the morphome analysis: The content and expression of Danish forståPeter Juul Nielsen | pp. 125–150
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Word order as grammaticalised semiotic systemsLars Heltoft | pp. 151–178
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Part III. Problems of reanalysis
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Anticausative and passive in Vedic: Which way reanalysis?Hans Henrich Hock | pp. 181–191
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Grammaticalization and degrammati(calizati)on in the development of the Iranian verb systemVit Bubenik | pp. 193–204
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Aspects of grammaticalization and reanalysis in the voice domain in the transition from Latin to early Italo-RomanceMichela Cennamo | pp. 205–231
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From preverbal to postverbal in the early history of JapaneseBjarke Frellesvig | pp. 233–251
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Reanalysis in the Russian past tense: The gerundial perfectJan Ivar Bjørnflaten | pp. 253–270
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From a single lexical unit to multiple grammatical paradigmsKirsten Jeppesen Kragh and Lene Schøsler | pp. 271–294
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Morphosyntactic reanalysis in Australian languages: Three studiesHarold Koch | pp. 295–309
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Definiteness in Germanic and Balto-Slavic: Historical and comparative perspectivesJohn Ole Askedal | pp. 311–324
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Part IV. Actualization
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Diatopy and frequency as indicators of spread: Accentuation in Bulgarian dialectsRonelle Alexander | pp. 327–344
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Suppletion or illusion? The diachrony of suppletive derivationJohanna Nichols | pp. 345–356
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Part V. Language change and diachronic typology in Balto-Slavic
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A complicated relationship: Balto-Slavic accentual mobility as a non-trivial shared innovationThomas Olander | pp. 359–380
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Name-calling: The Russian ‘new Vocative’ and its statusLaura A. Janda | pp. 381–394
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Changes of tense and modality in Late Mediaeval Slovene: Transference, extension or both?Jadranka Gvozdanović | pp. 395–409
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Index | pp. 411–419
“The potential for fruitful co-existence between historically different approaches to language change is also illustrated by the volume, which takes upinternal (‘evolutive’) changes analysable interms of stammbaum-type patterns, grammaticalization, the rise of constructional and word order paradigms as well as the role of external factors.”
Peter Harder, University of Copenhagen, in Revue Romane, Volume 56:2 (2021).
Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFF: Historical & comparative linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General