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Historical Linguistics 2015: Selected papers from the 22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Naples, 27-31 July 2015
Edited by Michela Cennamo and Claudia Fabrizio
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 348] 2019
► pp. v–viii

Table of contents

Introduction 1
Part I.Phonology 9
Chapter 1.Old Irish consonant quality re-examined 11
Chapter 2.The use of the past to explain the past: Roman grammarians and the collapse of vowel quantity 27
Chapter 3.Pertinacity in loanwords: Same underlying systems, different outputs 57
Part II.Morphology 75
Chapter 4.Ablaut in Armenian nasal declension 77
Chapter 5.Gender and declension mismatches in West Nordic 97
Chapter 6.The development of gender and countability effects in German ung- and English ing-nominals 115
Chapter 7.Where do Italian -ata nouns come from? Some new diachronic evidence on a Romance derivational pattern 133
Chapter 8.Diachrony and Morphological Equilibrium: The Case of the Southern New Indo-Aryan Verb 149
Chapter 9.Anti-relevant, contra-iconic but system-adequate: On unexpected inflectional changes 171
Part III.Morphosyntax 185
Chapter 10.Impersonal passives and the suffix -r in the Indo-European languages 187
Chapter 11.The Old English verbal prefixes for- and ge-: Their effects on the transitivity of morphological causative pairs 217
Part IV.Syntax 243
Chapter 12.Enclitic -(m)a ‘but’/ -(y)a ‘and’ in Hittite: Losing extraordinary syntactic behavior 245
Chapter 13.State representation and dynamic processes in Homeric Greek: The aorist in -ην in Homeric Greek 271
Chapter 14.Effecting a change: Perfect and middle in some Indo-European languages 287
Chapter 15.Early Indo-European dialects and innovations of aspect systems 301
Chapter 16.Perfecting the notion of Sprachbund: Perfects and resultatives in the ‘Stratified Convergenze Zones’ of Europe 319
Chapter 17.Parameters in the development of Romance perfective auxiliary 343
Chapter 18.Adverbs and the left periphery of non-finite clauses in Old Spanish 385
Part V.Diachronic Typology 403
Chapter 19.The sources of antipassive constructions: A cross-linguistic survey 405
Chapter 20.A diachronic account of converbal constructions in Old Rajasthani 423
Part VI.Semantics and Pragmatics 443
Chapter 21.The locative Alternation with spray/load verbs in Old English 445
Chapter 22.Penetration of French-origin lexis in Middle English occupational domains 459
Chapter 23.Meaning change from superlatives to definite descriptions: A semantic approach 479
Chapter 24.Towards diachronic word classes universals 501
Chapter 25.Grammaticalizing the face in a first generation sign language: The case of “Z” 519
Part VII.Language contact, variation and diffusion 561
Chapter 26.Linguistic divergence under contact 563
Chapter 27.Roots and branches of variation across dialects of English 593
Chapter 28.Waves in computer simulations of linguistic diffusion 615
Index 631


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