Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Stanford, March 26–30 1979

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Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Stanford, March 26–30 1979

Edited by: Elizabeth Closs Traugott , Rebecca Labrum and Susan C. Shepherd

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1980

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Volume 14 | Current Issues in Linguistic Theory

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The studies in this volume are revised versions of a selection from the papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, held at Stanford University on 26–30 March 1979. Papers at this conference, and in this volume, treat aspects of all current topics in historical linguistics, including topics that are only recently considered relevant, such as acquisition, structure, and language use.

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Linguistics and Semiotics Applied Linguistics Forensic Linguistics

Prelim pages Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Table of contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Typology as instigator and regulator of linguistic change Eugene Holman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	7
Explaining universals and their exceptions Lyle Campbell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	17
Continuity of transmission and genetic relationship Sarah G. Thomason Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	27
Chance cognition A probabilistic model and decision procedure for historical inference John S. Justeson and Laurence D. Stephens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	37
Redundancy as explanation in historical linguistics William M. Christie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	47
The structure of meaning in semiotic perspective Michael Shapiro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	53
Pragmatic and sociolinguitsic bias in semantic change Flora Klein-Andreu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	61
The marking of definiteness A diachronic perspective Martin B. Harris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	75
A functional approach to syntactic reconstruction Marianne Mithun Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	87
Implications of pre-complementizers with hittite š ak-/šek- ‘know’ Carol F. Justus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	97
On word order in irish Anders Ahlqvist Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	107
Marked and unmarked word order in old norse Marit Christoffersen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	115
An analysis of the rise of SOV patterns in dutch Marinel Gerritsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	123
Developments in the dutch left-dislocation structures and the verb-second constraint Frank Jansen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	137
from passive too active in kurdish via the ergative construction Theodora Bynon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	151
On the loss of a rule of syntax Alice C. Harris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	165
The development of accusative-infinitive constructions W.J. Pepicello Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	175
Syntactic diffusion Mario Saltarelli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	183
infinitival complements to verbs of motion in ontarian and quebec french Michael Canale, Raymond Mougeon and Édouard Beniak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	193
Verb compounds in greek the elimination of a transformational rule Geoffrey C. Horrocks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	199
The role of perception in restructuring and relexicalization two case histories Robert K. Herbert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	211
the evolution of clitics Robert J. Jeffers and Arnold M. Zwicky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	221
Circumfixes and typological change Joseph H. Greenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	233
On the decline of declensional systems the overall loss of OE nominal case inflections and the ME reanalysis of — es as his Richard D. Janda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	243
Conditions on object marking stages in the history of the east slavic Genitive-accusative Emily Klenin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	253
Reduction of case markers in Lithuanian data for discussion Janine K. Reklaitis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	259
Analogy and inflectional affix replacement Max W. Wheeler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	273
Russian conjugation Acquisition and evolutive change Henning Andersen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	285
Sound change and child language Marilyn Vihman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	303
The fluctuating intensity of a ‘sound law’ Yakov Malkiel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	321
Linguistic reasons for phonetic archaisms in romance Roger Wright Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	331
Early intervocalic voicing in tuscan Dieter Wanner and Thomas D. Cravens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	339
The transition problem lexical diffusion vs. variable rules John Reighard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	349
Lexical alternation and the history of english evidence from an urban vernacular James Milroy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	355
Pragmatic features and phonological change Martha Laferriere Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	363
Tonal accents in basque and greek Alice Wyland Grundt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	371
Acquisition and development of “gastarbeiterdeutsch” by migrant workers and their children in germany Carol W. Pfaff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	381
Pidginization and foreigner talk chinese pidgin russian Johanna Nichols Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	397
Concluding statement Paul Kiparsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	409
Index of names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	419
Index of languages Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	429
Index of subject matter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	433

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Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Stanford, March 26–30 1979

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