Historical Linguistics 1987

Papers from the 8th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Lille, August 30-September 4, 1987

Editors

Henning Andersen

E.F.K. Koerner

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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.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.66

Table of Contents

Foreword	v
The structure of drift Henning Andersen	1
Conflicting teleologies: drift and normalization in the history of Icelandic phonology Kristján Árnason	21
Language change: cyclical or linear? The case of the Romance future Bernard H. Bichakjian	37
Syntactic reconstruction and Finno-Ugric Lyle Campbell	51
Case assignment and NP movement in the history of Scandinavian Jan Terje Faarlund	95
Domesday Book and Late Old English dialects Jacek Fisiak	107
Bilinguisme et interférences: le cas de l’anglais sud-africain Pascal Gallez	129
Reanalysing actualization, and actualizing reanalysis Erica C. García	141
The rise of om in Middle Dutch infinitive constructions Marinel Gerritsen	161
Discourse functions and syntactic change Anna Giacalone Ramat	175
Framing the linguistic communication scene: ask vs. acsian and biddan Louis Goossens	191
La polysémie de of en vieil anglais et la métaphore spatialisante Marie-Line Groussier	211
Le cadre des changements phonétiques dans les langues romanes: mot et ‘syntagme phonétique’ Catherine Holm	231
Le rôle du système dans l’évolution d’un verbe en grec ancien Bernard Jacquinod	245
Whatever happened to the ablaut nouns in English — and why did it not happen in German? Dieter Kastovsky	253
Sources négligées dans l’histoire du vocabulaire: les dictionnaires bilingues du seizième siècle Douglas A. Kibbee	265
Shall or will ? Choice of the variant form in Early Modern English, British and American Merja Kytö	275
Le développement de ce que en français et l’évolution du relatif- interrogatif-exclamatif Jean-Marcel Léard	289
L’enfer de brumes et marais dans la tradition germano-celtique. Un problème mythologique et linguistique indo-européen H. Le Bourdelles	303
The structure and development of possessive noun phrases in Hittite Silvia Luraghi	309
The ghost of the agent in Romance Maria M. Manoliu	327
Non-adjacency in geminate structure: an historical perspective Jean-Pierre Y. Montreuil	339
Modes of inference and the gradual/rapid issue: suggestions from the English modal Stephen J. Nagle	353
A case of Proto-Indo-European allomorphy: the instrument noun suffix *-tlom and its variants Birgit Anette Olsen	363
Ouir, entendre, comprendre: une vue psychoméchanique sur le renouvellement du lexique Jacqueline Picoche	375
Neutralisation sémantique et marquage fonctionnel: à propos de l’évolution de certains emplois de celui et de ce en français Michel Pierrard	387
Romance comparative grammar and linguistic change Rebecca Posner	399
Local and global change in word formation Amanda V. Pounder	411
Germanic Verschärfung: tying up loose ends Jens Elmegård Rasmussen	425
Mécanismes et nature du changement syntaxique: le cas de la phrase complexe en indo-européen Andre Rousseau	443
The unaccusative hypothesis and the history of the perfect auxiliary in Germanic and Romance Thomas F. Shannon	461
Functional differentiation in the emerging English standard language: the evolution of a morphological discourse and style marker Dieter Stein	489
Verb phrase conjunction in Old English Robert P. Stockwell and Donka Minkova	499
Évolution droite ou sinueuse: les palatales du français Henriette Walter	517
On the history of grounding markers in English narrative: style or typology? Brita Wårvik	531
Cognitive Grammar and Kuryłowicz’s laws of analogy Margaret E. Winters	543
Semantic change in Romance words for “cut” Roger Wright	553
Index of Names compiled by Hans Boon	563
Index of Languages compiled by Hans Boon	573

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Subjects

Linguistics

Historical linguistics

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 89026711