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Historical Linguistics 2003
Selected papers from the 16th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Copenhagen, 11–15 August 2003
This volume consists of 19 papers presented at the 16th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, which was held in August 2003 in Copenhagen and drew the largest number of participants and the widest array of languages that this important biannual conference has ever had. As with previous volumes, the papers selected cover a wide range of subjects besides the core areas of historical linguistics, and this time include studies on ethnolinguistics, grammaticalisation, language contact, sociolinguistics, and typology. The individual languages treated include Brazilian Portuguese, Chukchi, Korean, Danish, English, German, Greek, Japanese, Kok-Papónk, Latin, Newar, Old Norse, Romanian, Seneca, Spanish, and Swedish. The volume reflects the state of the art both empirical and theoretical — in Historical Linguistics today, and shows the discipline to be as flourishing and capable of new advances as ever.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 257] 2005. x, 319 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 4 September 2006
Published online on 4 September 2006
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Preface | pp. vii–x
- Typological reflections on loss of morphological case in Middle Low German and in the Mainland Scandinavian languagesJohn Ole Askedal | pp. 1–19
- Ethnoreconstruction in Kok-PapónkPaul Black | pp. 21–29
- Rraising verbs vs. auxiliariesKasper Boye | pp. 31–46
- On the origin of the final unstressed [i] in Brazilian and other varieties of Portuguese: New evidence in an enduring debateMaria José Carvalho | pp. 47–60
- Socio-historical evidence for copula variability in rural Southern AmericaGaillynn D. Clements | pp. 61–73
- Main Stress Left in Early Middle EnglishB. Elan Dresher and Aditi Lahiri | pp. 75–85
- Some dialectal, sociolectal and communicative aspects of word order variation and change in Late Middle EnglishTamás Eitler | pp. 87–102
- Using Universal Principles of Phonetic Qualitative Reduction in Grammaticalization to explain the Old Spanish Shift from ge to seAndrés Enrique-Arias | pp. 103–114
- The origin of transitive auxiliary verbs in Chukotko-KamchatkanMichael Fortescue | pp. 115–130
- Grammaticalisation and LatinMichele Fruyt | pp. 131–139
- Paths of semantic extension: From cause to beneficiary and purposeSilvia Luraghi | pp. 141–157
- Vanishing discourse markers: Lat. et vs. sic in Old French and Old RomanianMaria M. Manoliu | pp. 159–177
- From ditransitive to monotransitive structure in the history of the Spanish language. Reanalysis of objects: A case of incorporation and monotransitivizationRosa María Ortiz Ciscomani | pp. 179–197
- Reflexive intensification in Spanish: Toward a complex reflexive?Johan Pedersen | pp. 199–223
- Modern Swedish bara: From adjective to conditional subordinatorHenrik Rosenkvist | pp. 225–239
- Nordic prefix loss and metrical stress theory with particular reference to ga- and bi -Michael Schulte | pp. 241–255
- The origin and development of lär, a modal epistemic in SwedishGudrun Svensson | pp. 257–277
- The development of the Spanish verb ir to an auxiliary of voiceThora Vinther | pp. 279–300
- The development of continuous aspectKazuha Watanabe | pp. 301–315
- Index | pp. 316–319
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