Historical Linguistics 2015
Selected papers from the 22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Naples, 27-31 July 2015
Editors
The collection of articles presented in this volume addresses a number of general theoretical, methodological and empirical issues in the field of Historical Linguistics, in different levels of analysis and on different themes: (i) phonology, (ii) morphology, (iii) morphosyntax, (iv) syntax, (v) diachronic typology, (vi) semantics and pragmatics, and (vii) language contact, variation and diffusion. The topics discussed, often in a comparative perspective, feature a variety of languages and language families and cover a wide range of research areas. Novel analyses and often new diachronic data — also from less known and under-investigated languages — are provided to the debate on the principles, mechanisms, paths and models of language change, as well as the relationship between synchronic variation and diachrony. The volume is of interest to scholars of different persuasions working on all aspects of language change.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 348] 2019. viii, 639 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 23 August 2019
Published online on 23 August 2019
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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IntroductionMichela Cennamo and Claudia Fabrizio | pp. 1–8
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Part I. Phonology
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Chapter 1. Old Irish consonant quality re-examinedHans Henrich Hock | pp. 11–26
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Chapter 2. The use of the past to explain the past: Roman grammarians and the collapse of vowel quantityMarco Mancini | pp. 27–56
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Chapter 3. Pertinacity in loanwords: Same underlying systems, different outputsAditi Lahiri and Holly Kennard | pp. 57–74
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Part II. Morphology
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Chapter 4. Ablaut in Armenian nasal declensionGiancarlo Schirru | pp. 77–96
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Chapter 5. Gender and declension mismatches in West NordicIvar Berg | pp. 97–114
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Chapter 6. The development of gender and countability effects in German ung- and English ing-nominalsMartina Werner and Gianina Iordăchioaia | pp. 115–132
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Chapter 7. Where do Italian -ata nouns come from? Some new diachronic evidence on a Romance derivational patternClaudia Fabrizio | pp. 133–148
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Chapter 8. Diachrony and morphological equilibrium: The case of the southern New Indo-Aryan verbPaolo Milizia | pp. 149–170
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Chapter 9. Anti-relevant, contra-iconic but system-adequate: On unexpected inflectional changesLivio Gaeta | pp. 171–184
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Part III. Morphosyntax
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Chapter 10. Impersonal passives and the suffix -r in the Indo-European languagesFrancesco Rovai | pp. 187–216
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Chapter 11. The Old English verbal prefixes for- and ge-: Their effects on the transitivity of morphological causative pairsEsaúl Ruiz Narbona | pp. 217–242
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Part IV. Syntax
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Chapter 12. Enclitic -(m)a ‘but’ / -(y)a ‘and’ in Hittite: Losing extraordinary syntactic behaviorAndrei V. Sideltsev | pp. 245–270
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Chapter 13. State representation and dynamic processes in Homeric Greek: The aorist in -ην in Homeric GreekDomenica Romagno | pp. 271–286
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Chapter 14. Effecting a change: Perfect and middle in some Indo-European languagesRomano Lazzeroni | pp. 287–300
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Chapter 15. Early Indo-European dialects and innovations of aspect systemsJadranka Gvozdanović | pp. 301–318
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Chapter 16. Perfecting the notion of Sprachbund: Perfects and resultatives in the “Stratified Convergence Zones” of EuropeBridget Drinka | pp. 319–342
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Chapter 17. Parameters in the development of Romance perfective auxiliary selectionAdam Ledgeway | pp. 343–384
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Chapter 18. Adverbs and the left periphery of non-finite clauses in Old SpanishTeresa María Rodríguez Ramalle and Cristina Matute | pp. 385–402
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Part V. Diachronic typology
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Chapter 19. The sources of antipassive constructions: A cross-linguistic surveyAndrea Sansò | pp. 405–422
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Chapter 20. A diachronic account of converbal constructions in Old RajasthaniKrzysztof Stroński, Joanna Tokaj and Saartje Verbeke | pp. 423–442
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Part VI. Semantics and pragmatics
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Chapter 21. The locative alternation with spray/load verbs in Old EnglishKatarzyna Sówka-Pietraszewska | pp. 445–458
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Chapter 22. Penetration of French-origin lexis in Middle English occupational domainsRichard Ingham, Louise Sylvester and Imogen Marcus | pp. 459–478
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Chapter 23. Meaning change from superlatives to definite descriptions: A semantic approachJun Chen and Dawei Jin | pp. 479–500
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Chapter 24. Towards diachronic word classes universalsMatthias Gerner | pp. 501–518
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Chapter 25. Grammaticalizing the face in a first generation sign language: The case of “Z”John B. Haviland | pp. 519–560
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Part VII. Language contact, variation and diffusion
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Chapter 26. Linguistic divergence under contactNicholas Evans | pp. 563–592
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Chapter 27. Roots and branches of variation across dialects of EnglishSali A. Tagliamonte | pp. 593–614
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Chapter 28. Waves in computer simulations of linguistic diffusionLuzius Thöny | pp. 615–630
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Index | pp. 631–636
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Language index | pp. 637–639
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Subjects
Linguistics
Main BIC Subject
CFF: Historical & comparative linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009010: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative