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Historical Linguistics 1997

Selected papers from the 13th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Düsseldorf, 10–17 August 1997
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 1998

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This volume presents a selection from the papers given at the 13th International Conference on Historical Linguistics. It offers a window on the current state of the art in historical linguistics: the papers cover a wide range of different languages, different language families, and different approaches to the study of linguistic change, ranging from optimality theory, theories of grammaticalization and the invisible hand, treatments of language contact and creolization to the linguistic consequences of political correctness. Among the languages under discussion are Akkadian, Catalan, Dutch, Finnish, Japanese, Sranan, Western Malayo-Polynesian, Yiddish, and a variety of Romance and Native American languages.

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    Prelim pages

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    Preface

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    Table of contents

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    Sound Laws

    1
    Arleta Adamska-Sałaciak
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    Passives in Western Malayo-Polynesian

    15
    Barry J. Blake
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    What can This Be?

    25
    Adrienne Bruyn
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    Grammmatical and Lexical Aspect in Akkadian and Proto-Semitic

    41
    Vit Bubenik
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    Euphemism with Attitude

    57
    Kate Burridge
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    The Loss of the Voice Dimension Between Late Latin and Early Romance

    77
    Michela Cennamo
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    How a Historical Linguist and a Native Speaker Understand a Complex Morphology

    101
    Wallace Chafe
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    The Evolution of Grammar

    117
    Bridget Drinka
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    Yiddish and Hebrew

    135
    Elaine Gold
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    Degenerate Feet in Tacanan Languages

    149
    Haike Jacobs
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    The Evolution of Ó in Open Position

    163
    Thera de Jong
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    The Structure of ra -Deletion in Japanese

    175
    Fusa Katada
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    Can Grammaticalization be Explained Invisible Handedly?

    191
    Jurgen Klausenburger
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    Toward a ‘Standard Yiddish’ Pronounciation

    201
    Anke Kleine
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    The Evolution of Adverbial Subordinators in Europe

    213
    Bernd Kortmann
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    A corpus-Based Model for the Description of Language Change and Variation in Nominal Classification exemplified by Dutch Seventeenth Century Varieties

    229
    Arjan van Leuvensteijn
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    Towards an Explanation of some Morphological Changes which ‘Should Never Have Happened’

    241
    Martin Maiden
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    On the Conservatism of Embedded Clauses

    255
    Kenjirô Matsuda
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    Velars and Palatals in Old English Alliteration

    269
    Donka Minkova
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    The Sequencing of Grammaticization Effects

    291
    Marianne Mithun
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    What Research on Creole Genesis Can Contribute to Historical Linguistics

    315
    Salikoko S. Mufwene
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    The Borrowing of Meaning as a Cause of Internal Syntactic Change

    339
    Ellen F. Prince
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    Grammaticalization of Complex Verbal Constructions in Finnish

    363
    Taru Salminen
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    Two Models for the Study of Language Contact

    377
    Caroline Smits
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    A Motivated Account of the Semantic Evolution of Watch and its Catalan Equivalents

    391
    Isabel Verdaguer and Anna Poch
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    Subject Index

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    Index of Languages

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Current Issues in Linguistic Theory
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Historical linguistics
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