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Historical Linguistics 1995

Volume 1: General issues and non-Germanic Languages.. Selected papers from the 12th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Manchester, August 1995
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2000

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This volume contains papers on general issues of language change, as well as specific studies of non-Germanic languages, including Romance, Slavonic, Japanese, Australian languages, and early Indo-European. A second volume, edited by Richard M. Hogg and Linda van Bergen, contains papers on Germanic.

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Edward J. Vajda, Western Washington University:
[...] a varied sample of some of the best historical linguistics work currently being conducted.

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    Prelim pages

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    Table of contents

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    Introduction

    vii
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    Emergence and Evolution of French Nasal Vowels

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    Jean-Luc Azra-Ikezawa
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    Development of Aspect from Ancient Slavic to Bulgaro-Macedonian

    23
    Vit Bubenik
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    Patterns of ‘Active’ Syntax in Late Latin Pleonastic Reflexives

    35
    Michela Cennamo
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    Comparative Reconstitution

    57
    Alan Dench
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    Expletives and Change

    73
    Monique Dufresne, Fernande Dupuis and Mireille Tremblay
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    Variation between the French Clitics y and lui

    87
    Denis Dumas
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    On Simplicity in Linguistic Reconstruction

    99
    Anthony Fox
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    Recent Changes in the Tonology of Kyoto Japanese

    111
    Bjarke Frellesvig
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    On Some Grammaticalization Patterns for Auxiliaries

    125
    Anna Giacalone Ramat
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    Kakari Particles and the Merger of the Predicative and Attributive Forms in Old Japanese

    155
    Peter Hendriks
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    Is Quantifier-Floating in Japanese a Recent Innovation? Contextual analysis of the numeral quantifier construction in Old Japanese

    169
    Alan Hyun-Oak Kim
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    Vedic Causative Nasal Presents and their Thematicization

    191
    Leonid Kulikov
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    The ‘Invisible Hand’ at Work

    211
    Paul M. Lloyd
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    The Origins of Definiteness Marking

    223
    Christopher Lyons
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    From Deixis ad Oculos to Discourse Markers via Deixis ad Phantasma

    243
    Maria M. Manoliu
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    The Legacy of Recycled Aspect

    261
    Marianne Mithun
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    The Development of Transitivity in the Chibchan Languages of Colombia

    279
    Nicholas Ostler
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    Capitalization

    295
    Christopher J. Pountain
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    Indo-European *d, *l, and *dl

    311
    Timothy J. Pulju
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    Declension in Old and Middle French

    327
    Pieter van Reenen and Lene Schøsler
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    From Latin Metre to Romance Rhythm

    345
    Mario Saltarelli
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    Diverging Sources of Perfective Aspect Morphology in Tibeto-Kinnauri

    361
    Anju Saxena
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    On the Origins of the Order of agreement and Tense Markers

    377
    Anna Siewierska
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    Character-Based Reconstruction of a Linguistic Cladogram

    393
    Ann Taylor, Tandy Warnow and Don Ringe
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    Bringing the Invisible Hand to Cognitive Grammar

    409
    Margaret E. Winters and Geoffrey S. Nathan
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    Index

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Current Issues in Linguistic Theory
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Historical linguistics
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