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Historical Linguistics 1995
Volume 1: General issues and non-Germanic Languages.
Selected papers from the 12th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Manchester, August 1995
This volume contains papers on general issues of language change, as well as specific studies of non-Germanic languages, including Romance, Slavonic, Japanese, Australian languages, and early Indo-European. A second volume, edited by Richard M. Hogg and Linda van Bergen, contains papers on Germanic.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 161] 2000. xii, 438 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 23 June 2011
Published online on 23 June 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Introduction | pp. vii–xii
- Emergence and Evolution of French Nasal Vowels: Reconsidering data through the interplay of production and perceptionJean-Luc Azra-Ikezawa | p. 1
- Development of Aspect from Ancient Slavic to Bulgaro-MacedonianVit Bubenik | p. 23
- Patterns of ‘Active’ Syntax in Late Latin Pleonastic ReflexivesMichela Cennamo | p. 35
- Comparative ReconstitutionAlan Dench | p. 57
- Expletives and Change: A morphological approach to syntactic changeMonique Dufresne, Fernande Dupuis and Mireille Tremblay | p. 73
- Variation between the French Clitics y and lui: Semantics vs. morphologyDenis Dumas | p. 87
- On Simplicity in Linguistic ReconstructionAnthony Fox | p. 99
- Recent Changes in the Tonology of Kyoto JapaneseBjarke Frellesvig | p. 111
- On Some Grammaticalization Patterns for AuxiliariesAnna Giacalone Ramat | p. 125
- Kakari Particles and the Merger of the Predicative and Attributive Forms in Old JapanesePeter Hendriks | p. 155
- Is Quantifier-Floating in Japanese a Recent Innovation? Contextual analysis of the numeral quantifier construction in Old JapaneseAlan Hyun-Oak Kim | p. 169
- Vedic Causative Nasal Presents and their Thematicization: A functional approachLeonid Kulikov | p. 191
- The ‘Invisible Hand’ at Work: Phonemic change as a ‘phenomenon of the third kind’Paul M. Lloyd | p. 211
- The Origins of Definiteness MarkingChristopher Lyons | p. 223
- From Deixis ad Oculos to Discourse Markers via Deixis ad PhantasmaMaria M. Manoliu | p. 243
- The Legacy of Recycled AspectMarianne Mithun | p. 261
- The Development of Transitivity in the Chibchan Languages of ColombiaNicholas Ostler | p. 279
- CapitalizationChristopher J. Pountain | p. 295
- Indo-European *d, *l, and *dlTimothy J. Pulju | p. 311
- Declension in Old and Middle French: Two opposing tendenciesPieter van Reenen and Lene Schøsler | p. 327
- From Latin Metre to Romance RhythmMario Saltarelli | p. 345
- Diverging Sources of Perfective Aspect Morphology in Tibeto-Kinnauri: External motivation or internal development?Anju Saxena | p. 361
- On the Origins of the Order of agreement and Tense MarkersAnna Siewierska | p. 377
- Character-Based Reconstruction of a Linguistic CladogramAnn Taylor, Tandy Warnow and Don Ringe | p. 393
- Bringing the Invisible Hand to Cognitive GrammarMargaret E. Winters and Geoffrey S. Nathan | p. 409
- Index | pp. 423–438
“[...] a varied sample of some of the best historical linguistics work currently being conducted.”
Edward J. Vajda, Western Washington University
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