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Historical Linguistics 1991
Papers from the 10th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam, August 12–16, 1991
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This volume contains 22 of the 95 papers presented during ICHL 10. The articles included here clearly reflect the on-going interest in the general mechanisms of language change, the close relationship between present-day historical linguistics and linguistic theory, and the renewed interest in language contact. The papers deal with more general issues as well as with specific problems in diverse languages and language groups.
The volume contains three indexes: of names, of languages, and of subjects.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 107] 1993. xviii, 395 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 18 October 2011
Published online on 18 October 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Preface | pp. vii–viii
- General programme of the conference | pp. ix–xviii
- The tendency towards right branching in the development and acquisition of Latin and FrenchBrigitte L.M. Bauer | p. 1
- Linguistics and its positivist handicapBernard H. Bichakjian | p. 19
- Question words in 18th-century and 20th-century SrananAdrienne Bruyn | p. 31
- The explanation of syntactic change: a historical perspectiveLyle Campbell | p. 49
- Traffic between the pragmatic and structural levelsC. Jac Conradie | p. 71
- Parameter resettingDorothy Disterheft | p. 87
- Old French and constraints on consonant epenthesisDenis Dumas | p. 99
- The definite article: early stages of developmentRichard Epstein | p. 111
- Language change: complex in its sources and directions, yet simple in systematicityJadranka Gvozdanović | p. 135
- Suppression of a word-order pattern in WestgermanicJack Hoeksema | p. 153
- Modularity in language changeMasataka Ishikawa | p. 175
- Blood, tears, and murder: the evidence for Proto-Uto-Aztecan syllable-final consonantsAlexis Manaster-Ramer | p. 199
- On leapfrogging in historical phonologyDonka Minkova | p. 211
- Greenberg’s American Indian classification: a report on the controversyPaul Newman | p. 229
- The grammaticalization of Spanish haber plus participleHella Olbertz | p. 243
- Latin to Romance (again!): change or genesis?Rebecca Posner | p. 265
- Linguistic variants and language change: deictic variants in some German and Dutch dialects vis-à-vis AfrikaansEdith H. Raidt | p. 281
- ‘Typological conservatism’ and framing constructions in German morphosyntaxElke Ronneberger-Sibold | p. 295
- On the evidence for bimoric vowels in Early EnglishRobert P. Stockwell | p. 315
- Longterm evolution of the syntax of discourse and the Swahili person markersBenji Wald | p. 325
- Jewish historical linguistics: 1981–1991–2001Paul Wexler | p. 343
- Gerunds and their objects in the Modern English periodWim van der Wurff | p. 363
- Indices (prepared by Boudewijn Smid)
- Index of names | pp. 377–384
- Index of languages | pp. 385–388
- Index of subject matter | pp. 389–395
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