Ancient Scripts and Phonological Knowledge
D. Gary Miller
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 116] 1994. xvi, 139 pp.
D. Gary Miller
List of John Benjamins publications for which D. Gary Miller plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Phonology | Writing and literacy
Subjects Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2004. The origin of the Welsh conjugated infinitive. Diachronica 21:2, pp. 329–350
Several issues of theoretical, typological, and historical interest are investigated. Conjugated infinitives (those with subject person agreement) are relatively rare but sufficiently well documented as to prompt some linguists to question the efficacy of the wordnonfinite. Moreover, the conjugated… read more | Article
2003. Where do conjugated infinitives come from?. Diachronica 20:1, pp. 45–81
Although conjugated infinitives (CIs) occur in languages as diverse as Portuguese, Welsh, Hungarian, and West Greenlandic, the prototypical infinitive is nonfinite in the traditional sense: it has no subject person agreement. This paper argues that CIs are special in the sense that they cannot… read more | Article
2002. The death of French in Medieval England. Romance Phonology and Variation: Selected papers from the 30th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Gainesville, Florida, February 2000, Wiltshire, Caroline R. and Joaquim Camps (eds.), pp. 145–159
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2001. Subject and object in Old English and Latin copular deontics. Grammatical Relations in Change, Faarlund, Jan Terje (ed.), pp. 223–239
The history of deontic expressions in several languages reveals some naturalness in (a) constructions involving BE plus infinitive/gerundial, (b) thematic object initially surfacing in the nom, (c) reanalysis via case accommodation in neuters to a structure in which the thematic object surfaces in… read more | Article
2001. Innovation of the indirect reflexive in Old French. Historical Linguistics 1999: Selected papers from the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, 9–13 August 1999, Brinton, Laurel J. (ed.), pp. 223–239
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2000. Gerund and gerundive in Latin. Diachronica 17:2, pp. 293–349
SUMMARY The Latin gerundive has three distinctive properties: (i) agreement with thematic object; (ii) ungrammaticality of lexical thematic subject; and (iii) inability to take both a specifier (determiner) and a complement while infinitives can have both. A case- theoretic account within the… read more | Article
1999. 4. Samual Kleinschmidt as Syntactician. The Emergence of the Modern Language Sciences: Studies on the transition from historical-comparative to structural linguistics in honour of E.F.K. Koerner, Embleton, Sheila, John E. Joseph and Hans-Josef Niederehe (eds.), pp. 41 ff.
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1997. The Morphological Legacy of French. Diachronica 14:2, pp. 233–264
SUMMARY A reexamination of a small portion of the morphological evidence reveals that there were no fewer than 100 hybrid derivatives (of the type French suffix on native base) prior to 1450 and at least 64 before 1400. Given that most of the texts are literary, those are fairly high numbers.… read more | Article
1994. The Middle English Reanalysis of DO. Diachronica 11:2, pp. 171–198
SUMMARY Formal (syntactic, distributional) and functional evidence are presented that do did not develop directly from a lexical (causative) verb to a dummy tense-carrier (member of INFL Phrase), but first became an aspectual auxiliary on a par with have and be. Relying on the historical principle… read more | Article
1985. Review of Bammesberger (1984): Lateinische Sprachwissenschaft. Diachronica 2:1, pp. 83–88
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1977. 20. Bartholomae’s law and an ie root structure constraint. Studies in Descriptive and Historical Linguistics: Festschrift for Winfred P. Lehmann, Hopper, Paul J. (ed.), pp. 365 ff.
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