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Historical Linguistics 2005
Selected papers from the 17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Madison, Wisconsin, 31 July - 5 August 2005
This volume contains 22 revised papers originally presented at the 17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, held August 2005 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. The papers cover a broad range of languages, including well-studied languages of Europe but also Aramaic, Zoque and Uto-Aztecan, Japanese and Korean, Afrikaans, and the Pilbara languages of Australia. The theoretical approaches taken are equally diverse, often bringing together aspects of ‘formal’ and ‘functional’ theories in a single contribution. Many of the chapters provide fresh data, including several drawing on data from electronic corpora. Topics range from traditional comparative reconstruction to prosodic change and the role of processing in syntactic change.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 284] 2007. viii, 413 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 1 July 2008
Published online on 1 July 2008
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Foreword | pp. vii–viii
- Part I. Grammaticalization
- Lexicalization and grammaticalization all over againLaurel J. Brinton and Elizabeth Closs Traugott | pp. 3–19
- Grammaticalization as reduction: Focus constructions in Chiapas ZoqueJan Terje Faarlund | pp. 21–31
- Metaphor and teleology do not drive grammaticalizationMatthew L. Juge | pp. 33–48
- Part II. Syntax and semantics
- Processing factors in syntactic variation and change: Clitics in Medieval and Renaissance SpanishMiriam Bouzouita | pp. 51–71
- Dynamic Syntax and dialogue modelling: Preliminaries for a dialogue-driven account of syntactic changeRuth M. Kempson and Ronnie Cann | pp. 73–101
- An economy approach to the triggering of the Russian instrumental predicate caseNerea Madariaga | pp. 103–117
- Change and variation in ga/no conversion in Tokyo JapaneseSatoshi Nambu and Kenjirô Matsuda | pp. 119–131
- Perfect change: Synchrony meets diachronyMarie-Eve Ritz | pp. 133–147
- Variable use of negation in Middle Low GermanJohn D. Sundquist | pp. 149–166
- Is there a DP in Old English?Johanna L. Wood | pp. 167–187
- Part III. Morphology
- Some semantic and pragmatic aspects of case-loss in Old FrenchRichard Ashdowne and John Charles Smith | pp. 191–205
- The final stages of deflection: The case of Afrikaans het "have"C. Jac Conradie | pp. 207–221
- Demonstrative paradigm splitting in the Pilbara languages of Western AustraliaAlan Dench | pp. 223–237
- Infinitival forms in AramaicSteven E. Fassberg | pp. 239–256
- The role of productivity in word-formation changeCarmen Scherer | pp. 257–271
- Part IV. Phonetics and phonology
- Structured imbalances in the emergence of the Korean vowel systemSang-Cheol Ahn and Gregory Iverson | pp. 275–293
- Final features and proto-Uto-Aztecan: A contribution using morphological reconstructionKaren Dakin | pp. 295–310
- Facts, theory and dogmas in historical linguistics: Vowel quantity from Latin to RomanceMichele Loporcaro | pp. 311–336
- On the irregularity of Open Syllable Lengthening in GermanB. Richard Page | pp. 337–350
- The resilience of prosodic templates in the history of West GermanicLaura Catharine Smith | pp. 351–365
- Part V: Variation
- Urban interactions and written standards in Early Modern GermanBruce H. Spencer | pp. 369–384
- The Hollandish roots of Pella Dutch in IowaPieter van Reenen | pp. 385–401
- Language index | pp. 403–404
- Name index | pp. 405–409
- Subject index | pp. 411–413
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