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Papers from the Third International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Hamburg, August 22–26 1977
The papers in this volume are a selection from those presented at the 3rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL), held in 1977 at the University of Hamburg. These selected papers deal with a wide variety of issues, some from a more general-theoretical perspective, some deriving new theoretical insights from language data ranging from Ojibwa to Old-Saxon.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 13] 1982. xvi, 434 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 10 October 2011
Published online on 10 October 2011
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Table of Contents
- Preface | pp. v–vi
- Program | pp. vii–xvi
- Synchronic, diachronic, and panchronic linguisticsWilliam M. Christie | p. 1
- The interplay between diachronic linguistics and dialectology: Some refinements of Trudgill’s formulaMarinel Gerritsen and Frank Jansen | p. 11
- Development of tones in languages with distinctive tonal accentsJadranka Gvozdanović | p. 39
- Diachrony in synchronyGöran Hammarström | p. 51
- Determinism in linguistics: neogrammarian and transformationalistJohn Hewson | p. 65
- Historical development of tone patternsJean-Marie Hombert and John J. Ohala | p. 75
- Short-term and long-term teleology in linguistic changeEsa Itkonen | p. 85
- Sound change and perceptual compensationTore Janson | p. 119
- The neogrammarian doctrine: breakthrough or extension of the Schleicherian paradigmE.F.K. Koerner | p. 129
- Observations on the sources, transmission, and meaning of ‘Indo-european’ and related terms in the development of linguisticsE.F.K. Koerner | p. 153
- Semantic investiture of underspecified units in syntaxStephan Langhoff | p. 181
- The phonetic nature of the Neo-Štokavian accent shifts in Serbo-croatianIlse Lehiste and Pavle Ivić | p. 197
- Homo : Humus and the semitic counterparts: The oldest culturally significant Etymology?Saul Levin | p. 207
- La désinence féminine -esseLeena Löfstedt | p. 217
- Between monogenesis and polygenesisYakov Malkiel | p. 235
- On comparative syntaxMarianne Mithun and Lyle Campbell | p. 273
- A syntactic correlate of style switching in the Canterbury talesLynn Ness and Caroline Duncan-Rose | p. 293
- Evidence of auslautsverhärtung in old saxonKarl Odwarka | p. 323
- The application of the comparative method to the philippine languagesConsuelo J. Paz | p. 345
- Historical analogy and the peircean categoriesIrmengard Rauch | p. 359
- The PIE word order controversy and word order in lithuanianJanine K. Reklaitis | p. 369
- On the problem of mergerKristian Ringgaard | p. 387
- The word-and-paradigm model and linguistic change: the verbal system of ojibwaH. Christoph Wolfart | p. 397
- Indices | pp. 419–434