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In:Papers from the Fifth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Galway, April 6–10 1981
Edited by Anders Ahlqvist
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 21] 1982
► pp. v–vi

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Published online: 1 January 1982
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Table of contents

Prefacevii
Liste des participantsx
Endgültiges Programm der Konferenzxviii
On explaining language change1
Assibilation in Sino-Korean15
Le français de demain: VSO ou VOS20
Why small children cannot change language on their own: suggestions from the English past tense29
The analogical pressure of synonymy: the dual gender of Spanish mar ‘sea’38
Subject raising in Old Irish44
The system of verbs involving a speaker-hearer relationship: come/go, bring/take, in Old and Middle English54
Word order change in Dutch imparative clauses: the interaction between contextual and syntactic factors62
On the development of the modals and the epistemic function in English74
Some phonological changes in Polynesian languages98
Ablaut and syntax in Kartvelian110
Shifting systems: evidence for systemic change in French historical phonology117
Aspects of the evolution of relatives in Romance123
On the historical continuity of linguistic systems133
Change of language as a prototype for change of linguistics142
Diachronic facts vs. synchronic fiction: historical linguistic evidence against assuming underlying grammatical uniformity for contemporary dialects of the same language149
Semantic change and etymologies163
Morphologycal influences on soundchange171
The system of negation in later Middle English prose176
Reductive phonetic developments as the trigger to typological change: two examples from the Finno-Ugrian languages190
Modern Irish grammars and the plural marker acha196
Graphology and sound change in Old Prussian201
Iconicity in phonological change211
On the problem of historical interpretation: Verner’s law in gothic223
The mistery of the vanished Laurentinians230
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On the origin of the Portugese inflected infinitive243
Schreibumwertung und die Methoden der historischen Phonologie249
On the sources of Indo-European conjunctions of purpos, cause and result256
A Neglected phonetic law: the reduction of the Indo-European laryngeals in internal syllables before yod265
Explorations on syntactic change (relative clause formation strategies)283
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The reconstruction of language in its social context: methodology for a socio-historical linguistic theory293
Vivid language and language change304
From deontic to epistemic: an analysis of modals in the history of English, creoles, and language acquisition316
On short-term language change: developments in Irish morphology324
Conversational pues in Spanish: a proces of degrammaticalization?332
Numerical and socio-linguistic perspectives of the p/pf-isogloss in South-Rhenish Franconian dialects341
Historical metrics: the caesura in French356
Structural change and pidginization in the history of the Arabic language362
Theories of language and the nature of evidence and explanation in historical linguistics374
From discourse to syntax: for in Early English causal clauses385
Historical linguistics and metaphilology394
On the historical roots of the philology and historical linguistics425
Scribal practise and historical phonology433
Discussion442
Concluding remarks460
Index Fontium et Nominum467
Index Linguarum508
Index Rerum516
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