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Historical Linguistics 2007
Selected papers from the 18th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, 6–11 August 2007
For more than three decades, the International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL) has been characterized by diversity, both in terms of the theoretical frameworks used by its researchers and the wide variety of languages that are analyzed. ICHL 18, which took place at the Université du Québec à Montréal in August 2007, was no exception to the continuation of this tradition. The articles in the present volume encompass many different approaches and a wide range of theories, including grammaticalization, generative approaches to linguistic change and variation, reanalysis, the use of analogy, and the interplay between internal and external factors. The volume is divided into four sections, dealing with phonology, with syntax, morphology, and semantics, with external factors in linguistic change, and with tools and methodologies. This way, this volume aims to be a reflection of the diverse trends in current historical linguistic study.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 308] 2009. x, 311 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 17 November 2009
Published online on 17 November 2009
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Foreword & acknowledgements | pp. ix–x
- Introduction | pp. 1–6
- Part I. Phonology
- Middle English vowel length in French loanwordsAshley L. Burnett | pp. 9–18
- Dental fricatives and stops in Germanic: Deriving diachronic processes from synchronic variationBridget Smith | pp. 19–36
- Dialect variation and the Dutch diminutive: The role of prosodic templatesLaura Catharine Smith | pp. 37–46
- Part II. Morphology, syntax and semantics
- On the disappearance of genitive types in Middle English: Objective genitives with nouns of love and fear and the nature of syntactic changeCynthia L. Allen | pp. 49–60
- An asymmetric view on stage II in Jespersen’s cycle in the West Germanic languagesAnne Breitbarth | pp. 61–72
- Temporal reference and grammaticalization in the Spanish perfect(ive)Mary T. Copple | pp. 73–82
- (Un)-interpretable features and grammaticalizationViviane Déprez | pp. 83–98
- Imperative morphology in diachrony evidence from the Romance languagesMartin Maiden, Andrew Swearingen and Paul O'Neill | pp. 99–108
- VO vs V(…)O en FrançaisChristiane Marchello-Nizia | pp. 109–122
- On the development of Recipient passives in DO languages: A case studyChantal Melis and Marcela Flores | pp. 123–134
- The emergence of DP in the history of English: The role of the mysterious genitiveFuyo Osawa | pp. 135–148
- A diachronic view of Psychological verbs with Dative Experiencers in Spanish and RomanianMaría Luisa Rivero and Constanta Rodica Diaconescu | pp. 149–160
- On the loss of the masculine genitive plural in Cypriot Greek: Language contact or internal evolution?Ioanna Sitaridou and Marina Terkourafi | pp. 161–174
- The rise of peripheral modifiers in the noun phraseFreek Van de Velde | pp. 175–184
- Wild variation, random patterns, and uncertain data*Dieter Wanner | pp. 185–194
- Part III. Sociolinguistics and dialectology
- Le changement linguistique dans la langue orale selon deux recherches sur le terrain séparées d’un siècleMontserrat Adam-Aulinas | pp. 197–210
- Patrons sociolinguistiques chez trois générations de locuteurs acadiensLouise Beaulieu and Wladyslaw Cichocki | pp. 211–222
- Change of functions of the first person pronouns in ChineseVicky Tzuyin Lai and Zygmunt Frajzyngier | pp. 223–232
- Vinderup in real time: A showcase of dialect levellingSigne Wedel Schøning and Inge Lise Pedersen | pp. 233–244
- Variation in real time: A case of sound change in CatalanOrland Verdù | pp. 245–256
- Part IV. Tools and methodology
- UNIDIA: A database for deriving diachronic universalsMahé Ben Hamed and Sébastien Flavier | pp. 259–268
- Visualization, validation and seriation: Application to a corpus of medieval textsFernande Dupuis and Ludovic Lebart | pp. 269–284
- Quantifying linguistic changes: Experiments in Norwegian language historyHelge Sandoy | pp. 285–294
- Historical core vocabulary: Spring and/or anchor: On tendencies and mechanisms of language evolutionValentina Skybina and Iryna Galutskikh | pp. 295–306
- Index of languages and terms | pp. 307–308
- Index of subjects and terms | pp. 309–311