Historical Linguistics 1993: Selected papers from the 11th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Los Angeles, 16–20 August 1993

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Historical Linguistics 1993

Selected papers from the 11th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Los Angeles, 16–20 August 1993

Edited by: Henning Andersen

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1995

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This volume contains a selection of 34 of the 96 papers presented at ICHL 1993, including several of the contributions to the workshop on Parameters and Typology organized jointly by Henning Andersen and David W. Lightfoot. Major topics represented are grammaticalization and functional renewal (illustrated with changes in romance, French, Pennsylvania German, Afrikaans, English, Finnish), changes in syntax (Indo-European, Indo-Aryan, Ancient Greek, Romanian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Japanese, Dutch, English) and discourse structure (Old Russian, Old French), morphology (German, Turkic), phonology (Romance, Italian, French, German, Old English, English). Several papers include sociolinguistic, areal, and typological perspectives on change; a few are specifically concerned with reconstruction or with the principles of reconstruction, and several demonstrate the continued importance of the philological methods in the study of texts.

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Linguistics and Semiotics Applied Linguistics Forensic Linguistics

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Regrammaticalization and Regrammaticalization of the inchoative suffix Andrew Allen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Light shed on problems of Turkic conjugation the northeast Turkic progressive present in — Ipča(t) and the ‘mixed’ conjugation Gregory D.S. Anderson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	9
On the history of relative clauses in French and some of its dialects Julie Auger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	19
Functional renewal Laurel J. Brinton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	33
Passives and ergatives in middle Indo-Aryan Vit Bubenik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	49
Evidence of grammaticalization in Pennsylvania German Kate Burridge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	59
Old froms for new concepts the recategorization of possessive duplications in Mexican Spanish Concepción Company Company Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	77
On subjectification in modal adverbs C. Jac Conradie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	93
Gender, class, and prestige in the spread of an allophonic rule Thomas D. Cravens and Luciano Giannelli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	105
Reconstruction of the Proto-Romance syllable Naomi Cull Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	117
The development of word-final /b/ in English Andrei Danchev Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	133
Areal linguistics in prehistory evidence from Indo-European aspect Bridget Drinka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	143
The later stages in the development of the definite article evidence from French Richard Epstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	159
Parameters underlying the organization of medieval Russian texts Jadranka Gvozdanović Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	177
What the choice of the overt nominalizer NO did to Mmodern Japanese syntax and semantics Kaoru Horie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	191
On the categorical evolution a case study in Spanish possessives Masataka Ishikawa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	205
Regression and creation in the double accusative in Ancient Greek Bernard Jacquinod Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	217
Mophological reanalysis and typology the case of the Greman r- plural and why English did not develop it Dieter Kastovsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	227
On the grammaticization of the definite article SE in spoken Finnish Ritva Laury Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	239
Identifying an Old French text with the help of dialect analysis Leena Löfstedt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	251
Prototypically and agenthood in Indo-European Silvia Luraghi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	259
Genetic congruence versus areal convergence the misfortune of LAtin AD in Romanian Maria M. Manoliu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	269
On the fate of adjectival declension in Overseas Dutch (with some notes on the history of Dutch) Jaap van Marle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	283
Clitic placement from Old to Modern European Portuguese Ana Maria Martins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	295
A diachronic view of prepositional verbs of emotion in Spanish Chantal Melis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	309
Phonologically based mmorphological change high-vowel deletion and pardigmatic implications in Old English Robert W. Murray Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	323
Diachronic stable structural features Johanna Nichols Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	337
The diachronic distibution of bare and prepositional infinitives in English Jairo Nunes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	357
Object shift in Old Spanish a minimalist theory approach Claudia Parodi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	371
Lexical diffusion as a guide to scribal intent a comparison of ME “eo” and “e” spellings in the PETERBOROUGH CHRONICLE and the ORMULUM Betty S. Phillips Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	379
Verb-seconding in Old English Susan Pintzuk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	387
the thematic structure of the main clause in OLd French, OR versus SI Pieter van Reenen and Lene Schøsler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	401
on different ways of optimizing the sound shape of words Elke Ronneberger-Sibold Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	421
Exaptation and grammaticalization Nigel Vincent Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	433
Author’s addresses Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	447
Index of names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	449
Index of languages Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	457

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