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In:The Emergence of the Modern Language Sciences: Studies on the transition from historical-comparative to structural linguistics in honour of E.F.K. Koerner
Edited by Sheila Embleton, John E. Joseph and Hans-Josef Niederehe
[Not in series EMLS 2] 1999
► pp. v–viii

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Published online: 15 October 1999

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Table of contents

Introduction: Problems of structuralist beginnings (and endings)ix

Sheila Embleton

Hans-Josef Niederehe

IV. Methodological Perspectives

21. Indo-European Methodology, Bloomfield’s Central Algonquian, and Sapir’s Distant Genetic Relationships3

22. The Need for Phonetically Accurate Notation in the General Progress of Linguitics17

23. The Autonomy of Linguistics: Saussure to Chomsky and beyond29

24. On the Notion of Zero41

25. ‘God’s Truth’ and Sturcturalism: A new look at an old controversy67

Gary D. Prideaux

26. From Ordered Rules to Ranked Constraints81

V. Indo-European Linguistics

27. Next of Kin: The search for relatives of Indo-European101

Allan R. Bomhard

28. Typolgy and Reconstruction: New trends in comparative historical and diachronic linguistics109

Thomas V. Gamkrelidze

29. Typology and Diachrony of the Middle Voice115

Helena Kurzová

30. Indo-European Numerals Since Szemerényi131

Carol F. Justus

31. Berthold Delbrück and his Contemporaries on ‘Tempora’ in Sanskrit153

32. Observations on Two Recently Discovered Latin Inscriptions165

33. Comparative, Structural and Sociolinguistic Analyses of the History of the Romance Languages175

34. Romance Historical Morphology and Empty Affixes189

35. Markedness and Morphosyntactic Change Revisited: The case of Romance past participle agreement203

John Charles Smith

36. Romanian and the Balkans: Some comparative perspectives217

Brian D. Joseph

VII. Germanic, Caucasian and Asian Linguistics

37. Toward “a Complete Analysis of the Residues”: On regular vs. morpholexical approaches to OHG umlaut239

David J. Holsinger

Joseph C. Salmons

38. Narrative Cohesion in the Kensington Runic Text255

39. The Compound Gerund in Early Modern English265

40. Gender Affixes in Tsez: Synchrony and diachrony279

41. Once Again on the Reading of the Old Korean289

Alexander Vovin

42. The Rôle of Historiography in Evaluating the Results of Comparative Linguistic Work: A case study301

Paul J. Sidwell

Koerner Tabula Gratulatoria313

Name Index315

Subject Index321

Contents of Volume One333