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Papers from the 7th International Conference on Historical Linguistics
These papers, deriving from the 7th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL) in Pavia in 1984, provide an overview of the current status of research in this field. They clearly show that new issues are emerging in the theory of linguistic change which tend to incorporate non-autonomous principles like naturalness in phonetic processes, the influence of socio-cultural settings and discourse pragmatics.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 48] 1987. xvi, 672 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 24 October 2011
Published online on 24 October 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Preface | pp. ix–x
- General programme of the Conference | pp. xi–xvi
- Gothic obstruents: the limits of reconstructionJohn M. Anderson | p. 1
- Structure de l’énoncé indo-européenFrançoise Bader | p. 13
- Il s’en va où le français, et pourquoi?Joëlle Bailard | p. 35
- Attempting the reconstruction of negotion patterns in PIEGiuliano Bernini | p. 57
- Structure and origin of the “narrative” imperfectPier Marco Bertinetto | p. 71
- The evolution of word order: A paedomorphic explanationBernard H. Bichakjian | p. 87
- The evolution of future meaningJoan L. Bybee and William Pagliuca | p. 109
- Syntactic change and the lexiconTheodora Bynon | p. 123
- Die syntax der ältesten lateinischen ProsaGualtiero Calboli | p. 137
- Diachronic evidence and the affix-clitic distinctionAndrew D. Carstairs-McCarthy | p. 151
- The syllable and phonological strength: Gradient loss of gemination in CorsicanThomas D. Cravens | p. 163
- Diachronic semantic processes in the middel voiceWilliam A. Croft, Hava Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot and Suzanne Kemmer | p. 179
- Drift and selective mechanisms in morphological change: the Eastern nilotic caseGerrit J. Dimmendaal | p. 193
- The diachronic relationship of morphology and syntaxDorothy Disterheft | p. 211
- Old English þa, temporal chains, and narrative structureNils Erik Enkvist and Brita Wårvik | p. 221
- The establishment of “by” to denote agency in Emglish passive constructionsThomas H.K. Fraser | p. 239
- From Indo-European perfect to Slavic perfect to Slavic preteriteHerbert Galton | p. 251
- On doing comparative reconstruction with genetically unrelated languagesJohn Harris | p. 267
- Α(ἰ)εί and the prehistory of Greek noun accentuationHenry M. Hoenigswald | p. 283
- The instability of peripheral /e./, /ø./, and /o./ in Dutch lectsCor Hoppenbrouwers | p. 285
- Structuralism and diachrony: the development of the indefinite article in EnglishPaul J. Hopper and Janice Martin | p. 295
- On methodology in syntactic reconstruction: reconstructing inter-clause syntax in prehistoric Indo-EuropeanRobert J. Jeffers | p. 305
- Considerazioni sulla cronologia relativa dei mutamenti foneticiRomano Lazzeroni | p. 325
- TimeWinfred P. Lehmann | p. 339
- Auxiliary verbs in the universal theory of language changeHelmut Lüdtke | p. 349
- Patterns of case syncretism in Indo-European languagesSilvia Luraghi | p. 355
- Integration of phonosymbolism with other categories of language changeYakov Malkiel | p. 373
- The grammaticalization of social relationship: the origin of number to encode deferenceDerry L. Malsch | p. 407
- From conversational to conventional implicature: the romanian pronouns of identity and their substitutesMaria M. Manoliu | p. 419
- Note su /s/ interconsonantica nei dialetti greci antichiCelestina Milani | p. 429
- The prosodic character of early schwa deletion in EnglishDonka Minkova | p. 445
- Articulatory evolutionWilliam Pagliuca and Richard Mowrey | p. 459
- Creolization and syntactic change in RomanceRebecca Posner | p. 473
- Syllabicity as a genus, Sievers’ law as a speciesAldo Luigi Prosdocimi | p. 483
- Die entwicklung von komplexen zu einfachen semantischen inhaltenNorbert Reiter | p. 507
- A performance model for a natural theory of linguistic changeElke Ronneberger-Sibold | p. 517
- On “normal” full root structure and its historical developmentHaiim B. Rosén | p. 535
- The rise and fall of final devoicingThomas F. Shannon | p. 545
- On the historical relation between mental and speech act verbs in English and JapaneseElizabeth Closs Traugott and Richard Dasher | p. 561
- On the persistence of imperfect grammars: clitic movement from Late Latin to RomanceDieter Wanner | p. 575
- The aim of morphological change is a good mixture — not a unifrom language typeOtmar Werner | p. 591
- Syntactic and semantic space: the development of the French subjunctiveMargaret E. Winters | p. 607
- The study of semantic change in early Romance (late Latin)Roger Wright | p. 619
- Paradigmentstrukturbedingungen: Aufbau und veränderung von flexionsparadigmenWolfgang Ullrich Wurzel | p. 629
- Index of names | pp. 645–656
- Index of languages | pp. 657–664
- Index of subject matter | pp. 665–672
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