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Studies in Descriptive and Historical Linguistics: Festschrift for Winfred P. Lehmann
Edited by Paul J. Hopper
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 4] 1977
► pp. v–vi

Table of contents

Forewordvii
List of publications of Winfred P. Lehmann1
Compiler
Part I: Studies in descriptive linguistics19
1. Delocutive verbs in dyirbal21
2. Multiple SD’s for unambiguous sentences: continuums39
3. Remarks on the separation between syntax and semantics71
4. ‘Sexism’ and the Norwegian language83
5. Machine translation and abstract terminology95
6. Literary meanings — complex or simple?109
7. Some aspects of lexical synonymy in contemporary persian125
8. The humboldtian trend in linguistics145
9. On the inadequacy of type-3 and type-2 grammars for human languages159
10. False cognates in english and spanish173
11. Specificness in generative grammar188
12. Language in a sexist society209
13. Rule breaking in english spelling: A study of final E217
14. Linguistics as a practical science235
Part II: Studies in historical linguistics265
15. Typological notes on irish word-order267
16. Inductive generalizations in semantic change283
17. The uralo-yukaghir focus system: a problem in remote genetic relationship301
18. ‘Something stolen’: a semitic participle and an indo-european neuter substantive317
19. Why AP-ISH but worm-Y?341
20. Bartholomae’s law and an ie root structure constraint365
21. Secondary stress in germanic alliterative verse393
22. Approaches to the study ofvedic religion405
23. Lexical restructuring versus rule addition: a case study in dialect differentiation417
24. A note on Hippocrates’ γραµµατική429
25. historical considerations for lexical variation in cypriotic and standard greek437
26. The synchronic description and historical change445
27. An identification of a language — a methodology457
28. Hildebrandslied 35b: Dat ih dir it nu bi huldi gibu481
29. On the nativization of modern hebrew and the role of children in this process487
Index of names449


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