Historical Linguistics 1987
Papers from the 8th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Lille, August 30-September 4, 1987
Editors
The volume contains 37 papers originally presented at the 8th International Conference on Historical Linguistics in Lille, France. The papers bring historical data to bear on issues in theoretical linguistics, both descriptive and diachronic or deal with specific questions in the history of individual languages. The theoretical issues range from phonology over morphology and syntax to the lexicon, as well as questions of historical dialectology, language contact, the theory of linguistic change, and problems of comparative reconstruction. The languages discussed are Finno-Ugric and Indo-European, most of the papers dealing with Germanic and Romance languages (especially English and French), but some being devoted to Greek, Celtic, Slavic, and Hittite.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 66] 1990. xii, 577 pp.
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Published online on 10 October 2011
Published online on 10 October 2011
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Table of Contents
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Foreword | p. v
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The structure of driftHenning Andersen | p. 1
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Conflicting teleologies: drift and normalization in the history of Icelandic phonologyKristján Árnason | p. 21
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Language change: cyclical or linear? The case of the Romance futureBernard H. Bichakjian | p. 37
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Syntactic reconstruction and Finno-UgricLyle Campbell | p. 51
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Case assignment and NP movement in the history of ScandinavianJan Terje Faarlund | p. 95
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Domesday Book and Late Old English dialectsJacek Fisiak | p. 107
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Bilinguisme et interférences: le cas de l’anglais sud-africainPascal Gallez | p. 129
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Reanalysing actualization, and actualizing reanalysisErica C. García | p. 141
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The rise of om in Middle Dutch infinitive constructionsMarinel Gerritsen | p. 161
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Discourse functions and syntactic changeAnna Giacalone Ramat | p. 175
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Framing the linguistic communication scene: ask vs. acsian and biddanLouis Goossens | p. 191
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La polysémie de of en vieil anglais et la métaphore spatialisanteMarie-Line Groussier | p. 211
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Le cadre des changements phonétiques dans les langues romanes: mot et ‘syntagme phonétique’Catherine Holm | p. 231
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Le rôle du système dans l’évolution d’un verbe en grec ancienBernard Jacquinod | p. 245
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Whatever happened to the ablaut nouns in English — and why did it not happen in German?Dieter Kastovsky | p. 253
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Sources négligées dans l’histoire du vocabulaire: les dictionnaires bilingues du seizième siècleDouglas A. Kibbee | p. 265
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Shall or will ? Choice of the variant form in Early Modern English, British and AmericanMerja Kytö | p. 275
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Le développement de ce que en français et l’évolution du relatif- interrogatif-exclamatifJean-Marcel Léard | p. 289
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L’enfer de brumes et marais dans la tradition germano-celtique. Un problème mythologique et linguistique indo-européenH. Le Bourdelles | p. 303
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The structure and development of possessive noun phrases in HittiteSilvia Luraghi | p. 309
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The ghost of the agent in RomanceMaria M. Manoliu | p. 327
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Non-adjacency in geminate structure: an historical perspectiveJean-Pierre Y. Montreuil | p. 339
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Modes of inference and the gradual/rapid issue: suggestions from the English modalStephen J. Nagle | p. 353
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A case of Proto-Indo-European allomorphy: the instrument noun suffix *-tlom and its variantsBirgit Anette Olsen | p. 363
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Ouir, entendre, comprendre: une vue psychoméchanique sur le renouvellement du lexiqueJacqueline Picoche | p. 375
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Neutralisation sémantique et marquage fonctionnel: à propos de l’évolution de certains emplois de celui et de ce en françaisMichel Pierrard | p. 387
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Romance comparative grammar and linguistic changeRebecca Posner | p. 399
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Local and global change in word formationAmanda V. Pounder | p. 411
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Germanic Verschärfung: tying up loose endsJens Elmegård Rasmussen | p. 425
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Mécanismes et nature du changement syntaxique: le cas de la phrase complexe en indo-européenAndre Rousseau | p. 443
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The unaccusative hypothesis and the history of the perfect auxiliary in Germanic and RomanceThomas F. Shannon | p. 461
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Functional differentiation in the emerging English standard language: the evolution of a morphological discourse and style markerDieter Stein | p. 489
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Verb phrase conjunction in Old EnglishRobert P. Stockwell and Donka Minkova | p. 499
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Évolution droite ou sinueuse: les palatales du françaisHenriette Walter | p. 517
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On the history of grounding markers in English narrative: style or typology?Brita Wårvik | p. 531
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Cognitive Grammar and Kuryłowicz’s laws of analogyMargaret E. Winters | p. 543
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Semantic change in Romance words for “cut”Roger Wright | p. 553
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Index of Names compiled by Hans Boon | p. 563
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Index of Languages compiled by Hans Boon | p. 573
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LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General