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Explanation in Historical Linguistics
This is the first of two volumes deriving from papers presented at the Nineteenth Annual UVM Linguistics Symposium held in Milwaukee in April 1990. The contributions in this volume investigate the general question of what constitutes an explanation of diachronic change, and illustrate their proposals in the context of various specific problems in historical linguistics. The present volume also includes a solicited paper by Eric P. Hamp (“On remote reconstruction”) that addresses the validity of distant reconstructions like those of Nostratic and Proto-World.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 84] 1992. xiv, 238 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 18 October 2011
Published online on 18 October 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- PrefaceGarry W. Davis and Gregory Iverson | p. vii
- Event structure accounting for the emerging periphrastic tenses and the passive voice in GermanWerner Abraham | p. 1
- Historical explanation and historical linguisticsRaimo Anttila | p. 17
- Elements of resistance in contact-induced language changeJ. Clancy Clements | p. 41
- Articulatory variability, categorical perception, and the inevitability of sound changeAlice Faber | p. 59
- On the historical development of marked formsMonika Forner, Jeanette K. Gundel, Kathleen Houlihan and Gerald A. Sanders | p. 77
- On misusing similarityEric P. Hamp | p. 95
- Reconstruction and syntactic typology: A plea for a different approachHans Henrich Hock | p. 105
- Diachronic explanation: putting speakers back into the pictureBrian D. Joseph | p. 123
- Grammatical prototypes and competing motivations in a theory of linguistic changeSuzanne Kemmer | p. 145
- Understanding standardsFlora Klein-Andreu | p. 167
- Rules and analogyCarol Lynn Moder | p. 179
- The development of perfect reduplication in Indo-EuropeanMary K. Niepokuj | p. 193
- A look at the data for a global etymology: *tik ‘finger’Joseph C. Salmons | p. 207
- Author index | pp. 229–232
- Subject index | pp. 233–236
- Language index | pp. 237–238
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