In:Historical Linguistics 2011: Selected papers from the 20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Osaka, 25-30 July 2011
Edited by Ritsuko Kikusawa and Lawrence A. Reid
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 326] 2013
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 14 November 2013
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.326.toc
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Table of contents
Foreword and Acknowledgements
Editors’ introduction
Part I. Grammaticalization
The role of historical research in building a model of Sign Language typology, variation, and change
On the origin of Niger-Congo nominal classification
A closer look at subjectification in the grammaticalization of English modals: From the main verb mo(o)t to the root modal must
Subjectivity encoding in Taiwanese Southern Min
Part II. Problems in historical comparison and reconstruction
Emergence of the tone system in the Sanjiazi dialect of Manchu
Searching for undetected genetic links between the languages of South America
Reconstructing the category of “associated motion” in Tacanan languages (Amazonian Bolivia and Peru)
The mirage of apparent morphological correspondence: A case from Indo-European
Part III. Historical development of morphosyntactic features
Analogy as a source of suppletion
The rise and demise of possessive classifiers in Austronesian
Immediate-future readings of universal quantifier constructions
The historical development and functional characteristics of the go-adjective sequence in English
Recycling “junk”: A case for exaptation as a response to breakdown
Sapirian ‘drift’ towards analyticity and long-term morphosyntactic change in Ancient Egyptian
Language index
Index of terms
