Explanation in Historical Linguistics

Editors

Garry W. Davis

| University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Gregory Iverson

| University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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This is the first of two volumes deriving from papers presented at the Nineteenth Annual UVM Linguistics Symposium held in Milwaukee in April 1990. The contributions in this volume investigate the general question of what constitutes an explanation of diachronic change, and illustrate their proposals in the context of various specific problems in historical linguistics. The present volume also includes a solicited paper by Eric P. Hamp (“On remote reconstruction”) that addresses the validity of distant reconstructions like those of Nostratic and Proto-World.

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 84] 1992. xiv, 238 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.84

Table of Contents

Preface Garry W. Davis and Gregory Iverson	vii
Event structure accounting for the emerging periphrastic tenses and the passive voice in German Werner Abraham	1
Historical explanation and historical linguistics Raimo Anttila	17
Elements of resistance in contact-induced language change J. Clancy Clements	41
Articulatory variability, categorical perception, and the inevitability of sound change Alice Faber	59
On the historical development of marked forms Monika Forner, Jeanette K. Gundel, Kathleen Houlihan and Gerald A. Sanders	77
On misusing similarity Eric P. Hamp	95
Reconstruction and syntactic typology: A plea for a different approach Hans Henrich Hock	105
Diachronic explanation: putting speakers back into the picture Brian D. Joseph	123
Grammatical prototypes and competing motivations in a theory of linguistic change Suzanne Kemmer	145
Understanding standards Flora Klein-Andreu	167
Rules and analogy Carol Lynn Moder	179
The development of perfect reduplication in Indo-European Mary K. Niepokuj	193
A look at the data for a global etymology: *tik ‘finger’ Joseph C. Salmons	207
Author index	229
Subject index	233
Language index	237

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Subjects

Linguistics

Historical linguistics

Theoretical linguistics

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

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

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 92025765