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Historical Linguistics 1997
Selected papers from the 13th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Düsseldorf, 10–17 August 1997
This volume presents a selection from the papers given at the 13th International Conference on Historical Linguistics. It offers a window on the current state of the art in historical linguistics: the papers cover a wide range of different languages, different language families, and different approaches to the study of linguistic change, ranging from optimality theory, theories of grammaticalization and the invisible hand, treatments of language contact and creolization to the linguistic consequences of political correctness. Among the languages under discussion are Akkadian, Catalan, Dutch, Finnish, Japanese, Sranan, Western Malayo-Polynesian, Yiddish, and a variety of Romance and Native American languages.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 164] 1998. x, 409 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 24 October 2011
Published online on 24 October 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Sound Laws: Reactions Present and PastArleta Adamska-Sałaciak | p. 1
- Passives in Western Malayo-Polynesian: An Asian PerspectiveBarry J. Blake | p. 15
- What can This Be? A west African Contribution to SrananAdrienne Bruyn | p. 25
- Grammmatical and Lexical Aspect in Akkadian and Proto-SemiticVit Bubenik | p. 41
- Euphemism with Attitude: Politically Charged Language ChangeKate Burridge | p. 57
- The Loss of the Voice Dimension Between Late Latin and Early RomanceMichela Cennamo | p. 77
- How a Historical Linguist and a Native Speaker Understand a Complex MorphologyWallace Chafe | p. 101
- The Evolution of Grammar: Evidence from Indo-European PerfectsBridget Drinka | p. 117
- Yiddish and Hebrew: Borrowing Through Oral language ContactElaine Gold | p. 135
- Degenerate Feet in Tacanan Languages: Unmarkedness in OTHaike Jacobs | p. 149
- The Evolution of Ó in Open Position: Parallel Developments in French and Dutch DialectsThera de Jong | p. 163
- The Structure of ra-Deletion in JapaneseFusa Katada | p. 175
- Can Grammaticalization be Explained Invisible Handedly?Jurgen Klausenburger | p. 191
- Toward a ‘Standard Yiddish’ Pronounciation: An Instrumentally Aided Phonetic AnalysisAnke Kleine | p. 201
- The Evolution of Adverbial Subordinators in EuropeBernd Kortmann | p. 213
- A corpus-Based Model for the Description of Language Change and Variation in Nominal Classification exemplified by Dutch Seventeenth Century VarietiesArjan van Leuvensteijn | p. 229
- Towards an Explanation of some Morphological Changes which ‘Should Never Have Happened’Martin Maiden | p. 241
- On the Conservatism of Embedded ClausesKenjirô Matsuda | p. 255
- Velars and Palatals in Old English AlliterationDonka Minkova | p. 269
- The Sequencing of Grammaticization Effects: A Twist from North AmericaMarianne Mithun | p. 291
- What Research on Creole Genesis Can Contribute to Historical LinguisticsSalikoko S. Mufwene | p. 315
- The Borrowing of Meaning as a Cause of Internal Syntactic ChangeEllen F. Prince | p. 339
- Grammaticalization of Complex Verbal Constructions in FinnishTaru Salminen | p. 363
- Two Models for the Study of Language Contact: A Psycho-Linguistic perspective Versus a Socio-Cultural PerspectiveCaroline Smits | p. 377
- A Motivated Account of the Semantic Evolution of Watch and its Catalan EquivalentsIsabel Verdaguer and Anna Poch | p. 391
- Subject Index | pp. 401–406
- Index of Languages | pp. 407–409
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