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Historical Linguistics 1999
Selected papers from the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, 9–13 August 1999
This is a selection of papers from the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics held August 9-13, 1999, at the University of British Columbia. From the rich program and the many papers given during this conference, the present twenty-three papers were carefully selected to display the state of current research in the field of historical linguistics.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 215] 2001. xii, 389 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 21 October 2008
Published online on 21 October 2008
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Preface | pp. xi–xii
- How far has far from become grammaticalized?Minoji Akimoto | pp. 1–11
- Recent advances in the reconstruction of the Proto-Munda verbGregory D.S. Anderson and Norman H. Zide | pp. 13–30
- Multivariable reanalysis and phonological splitJanice M. Aski | pp. 31–47
- Are old English conjunct clauses really verb-final?Kristin Bech | pp. 49–62
- Alternation according to person in Italo-RomanceDelia Bentley and Thórhallur Eythórsson | pp. 63–74
- On ablaut and aspect in the history of AramaicVit Bubenik | pp. 75–88
- Language change and the phonological lexicon of KoreanYoung-mee Yu Cho | pp. 89–104
- Animals and vegetables, Uto-Aztecan noun derivation, semantic classification, and cultural historyKaren Dakin | pp. 105–117
- Gradience and linguistic changeDavid Denison | pp. 119–144
- Distinctive vowel length in Old French: Evidence and ImplicationsRandall Gess | pp. 145–156
- Remains of a submerged continent: Preaspiration in the languages of northwest EuropeGunnar Ólafur Hansson | pp. 157–174
- Rapid change among expletive polarity itemsJack Hoeksema | pp. 175–186
- The conversational factor in language change: From prenominal to postnominal demonstrativesMaria M. Manoliu | pp. 187–205
- On the origin of the Portuguese inflected infinitive: A new perspective on an enduring debateAna Maria Martins | pp. 207–222
- Innovation of the indirect reflexive in Old FrenchD. Gary Miller | pp. 223–239
- Lexical forces shaping the evolution of grammarMarianne Mithun | pp. 241–252
- Why “me” and “thee”?Johanna Nichols | pp. 253–276
- The English s-genitive: Animacy, topicality and possessive relationship in a diachronic perspectiveAnette Rosenbach | pp. 277–292
- Default inheritance hierarchies and the evolution of inflectional classesGregory T. Stump | pp. 293–307
- On the eve of a new paradigm: The current challenges to comparative linguistics in a Kuhnian perspectiveMarie-Lucie Tarpent | pp. 309–324
- Modeling koineizationDonald N. Tuten | pp. 325–336
- Coreference in the Popolocan languagesAnnette Veerman-Leichsenring | pp. 337–350
- Atlantis Semitica: Structural contact features in Celtic and EnglishTheo Vennemann | pp. 351–369
- Index of languages and language families | pp. 371–375
- Index of names | pp. 377–383
- Index of subjects | pp. 385–389
“[...] their quality makes the reading of these papers a pleasure [...] many of the papers exhibit an integrationist approach, in which evidence from different areas of linguistic analysis is combined where required by the materials and research questions.”
Margaret J-M Sonmez, Middle East Technical University, Ankara
“[...] anyone with any sort of interest in the field of historical linguistics should have no trouble finding something informative, enlightening, and/or thought-provoking to peruse in this excellent volume.”
Sharon A. Myers, Texas Tech University, in Language Vol. 79.2 (2003)
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