In:Historical Linguistics 2007: Selected papers from the 18th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, 6–11 August 2007
Edited by Monique Dufresne, Fernande Dupuis and Etleva Vocaj
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 308] 2009
► pp. v–viii
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Published online: 30 November 2009
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.308.toc
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Table of contents
Foreword & acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. Phonology
Middle English vowel length in French loanwords
Dental fricatives and stops in Germanic: Deriving diachronic processes from synchronic variation
Dialect variation and the Dutch diminutive: The role of prosodic templates
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 change
An asymmetric view on stage II in Jespersen’s cycle in the West Germanic languages
Temporal reference and grammaticalization in the Spanish perfect(ive)
(Un)-interpretable features and grammaticalization
Imperative morphology in diachrony evidence from the Romance languages
VO vs V(…)O en Français
On the development of Recipient passives in DO languages: A case study
The emergence of DP in the history of English: The role of the mysterious genitive
A diachronic view of Psychological verbs with Dative Experiencers in Spanish and Romanian
On the loss of the masculine genitive plural in Cypriot Greek: Language contact or internal evolution?
The rise of peripheral modifiers in the noun phrase
Wild variation, random patterns, and uncertain data*
Part III. Sociolinguistics and dialectology
Le changement linguistique dans la langue orale selon deux recherches sur le terrain séparées d’un siècle
Patrons sociolinguistiques chez trois générations de locuteurs acadiens
Change of functions of the first person pronouns in Chinese
Vinderup in real time: A showcase of dialect levelling
Variation in real time: A case of sound change in Catalan
Part IV. Tools and methodology
UNIDIA: A database for deriving diachronic universals
Visualization, validation and seriation: Application to a corpus of medieval texts
Quantifying linguistic changes: Experiments in Norwegian language history
Historical core vocabulary: Spring and/or anchor: On tendencies and mechanisms of language evolution
Index of languages and terms
Index of subjects and terms
