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

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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 1980

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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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    Prelim pages

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    Acknowledgments

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    Table of contents

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    Preface

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    Typology as instigator and regulator of linguistic change

    7
    Eugene Holman
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    Explaining universals and their exceptions

    17
    Lyle Campbell
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    Continuity of transmission and genetic relationship

    27
    Sarah G. Thomason
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    Chance cognition

    37
    John S. Justeson and Laurence D. Stephens
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    Redundancy as explanation in historical linguistics

    47
    William M. Christie
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    The structure of meaning in semiotic perspective

    53
    Michael Shapiro
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    Pragmatic and sociolinguitsic bias in semantic change

    61
    Flora Klein-Andreu
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    The marking of definiteness

    75
    Martin B. Harris
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    A functional approach to syntactic reconstruction

    87
    Marianne Mithun
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    Implications of pre-complementizers with hittite š ak-/šek- ‘know’

    97
    Carol F. Justus
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    On word order in irish

    107
    Anders Ahlqvist
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    Marked and unmarked word order in old norse

    115
    Marit Christoffersen
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    An analysis of the rise of SOV patterns in dutch

    123
    Marinel Gerritsen
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    Developments in the dutch left-dislocation structures and the verb-second constraint

    137
    Frank Jansen
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    from passive too active in kurdish via the ergative construction

    151
    Theodora Bynon
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    On the loss of a rule of syntax

    165
    Alice C. Harris
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    The development of accusative-infinitive constructions

    175
    W.J. Pepicello
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    Syntactic diffusion

    183
    Mario Saltarelli
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    infinitival complements to verbs of motion in ontarian and quebec french

    193
    Michael Canale, Raymond Mougeon and Édouard Beniak
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    Verb compounds in greek

    199
    Geoffrey C. Horrocks
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    The role of perception in restructuring and relexicalization

    211
    Robert K. Herbert
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    the evolution of clitics

    221
    Robert J. Jeffers and Arnold M. Zwicky
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    Circumfixes and typological change

    233
    Joseph H. Greenberg
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    On the decline of declensional systems

    243
    Richard D. Janda
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    Conditions on object marking

    253
    Emily Klenin
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    Reduction of case markers in Lithuanian

    259
    Janine K. Reklaitis
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    Analogy and inflectional affix replacement

    273
    Max W. Wheeler
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    Russian conjugation

    285
    Henning Andersen
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    Sound change and child language

    303
    Marilyn Vihman
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    The fluctuating intensity of a ‘sound law’

    321
    Yakov Malkiel
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    Linguistic reasons for phonetic archaisms in romance

    331
    Roger Wright
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    Early intervocalic voicing in tuscan

    339
    Dieter Wanner and Thomas D. Cravens
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    The transition problem

    349
    John Reighard
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    Lexical alternation and the history of english

    355
    James Milroy
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    Pragmatic features and phonological change

    363
    Martha Laferriere
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    Tonal accents in basque and greek

    371
    Alice Wyland Grundt
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    Acquisition and development of “gastarbeiterdeutsch” by migrant workers and their children in germany

    381
    Carol W. Pfaff
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    Pidginization and foreigner talk

    397
    Johanna Nichols
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    Concluding statement

    409
    Paul Kiparsky
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    Index of names

    419
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    Index of languages

    429
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    Index of subject matter

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