Papers from the Fifth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Galway, April 6–10 1981

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Papers from the Fifth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Galway, April 6–10 1981

Edited by: Anders Ahlqvist

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1982

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Volume 21 | Current Issues in Linguistic Theory

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This volume presents a selection of the best papers from the Fifth International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL), which was held in Galway, April 6–10 1981. These papers provide an overview of work in the field of historical linguistics, covering a wide variety of topics and languages.

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Linguistics and Semiotics Applied Linguistics Forensic Linguistics

Prelim pages Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Liste des participants Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Endgültiges Programm der Konferenz Publicly Available Download PDF	xviii
On explaining language change Martin B. Harris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Assibilation in Sino-Korean Eung-Jin Baek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	15
Le français de demain VSO ou VOS Joëlle Bailard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	20
Why small children cannot change language on their own suggestions from the English past tense Joan L. Bybee and Dan I. Slobin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	29
The analogical pressure of synonymy the dual gender of Spanish mar ‘sea’ Thomas D. Cravens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	38
Subject raising in Old Irish Dorothy Disterheft Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	44
The system of verbs involving a speaker-hearer relationship come/go, bring/take, in Old and Middle English Thomas H.K. Fraser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	54
Word order change in Dutch imparative clauses the interaction between contextual and syntactic factors Marinel Gerritsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	62
On the development of the modals and the epistemic function in English Louis Goossens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	74
Some phonological changes in Polynesian languages R.B. Harlow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	98
Ablaut and syntax in Kartvelian Alice C. Harris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	110
Shifting systems evidence for systemic change in French historical phonology John Hewson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	117
Aspects of the evolution of relatives in Romance Paul Hirschbühler and María Luisa Rivero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	123
On the historical continuity of linguistic systems Eugene Holman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	133
Change of language as a prototype for change of linguistics Esa Itkonen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	142
Diachronic facts vs. synchronic fiction historical linguistic evidence against assuming underlying grammatical uniformity for contemporary dialects of the same language Richard D. Janda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	149
Semantic change and etymologies D.M. Job Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	163
Morphologycal influences on soundchange Steve Johnson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	171
The system of negation in later Middle English prose André Joly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	176
Reductive phonetic developments as the trigger to typological change two examples from the Finno-Ugrian languages Mikko Korhonen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	190
Modern Irish grammars and the plural marker acha Heidi Ann Lazar-Meyn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	196
Graphology and sound change in Old Prussian Jules Levin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	201
Iconicity in phonological change Bruce Mannheim and Madeleine Newfield Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	211
On the problem of historical interpretation Verner’s law in gothic James Milroy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	223
The mistery of the vanished Laurentinians Marianne Mithun Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	230
On the origin of the Portugese inflected infinitive Bruce Osborne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	243
Schreibumwertung und die Methoden der historischen Phonologie Herbert Penzl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	249
On the sources of Indo-European conjunctions of purpos, cause and result W.J. Pepicello Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	256
A Neglected phonetic law the reduction of the Indo-European laryngeals in internal syllables before yod Georges-Jean Pinault Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	265
Explorations on syntactic change (relative clause formation strategies) Anna Giacalone Ramat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	283
The reconstruction of language in its social context methodology for a socio-historical linguistic theory Suzanne Romaine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	293
Vivid language and language change Janet E. Scott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	304
From deontic to epistemic an analysis of modals in the history of English, creoles, and language acquisition Susan C. Shepherd Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	316
On short-term language change developments in Irish morphology Nancy J. Stenson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	324
Conversational pues in Spanish a proces of degrammaticalization? Iraset Páez Urdaneta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	332
Numerical and socio-linguistic perspectives of the p/pf-isogloss in South-Rhenish Franconian dialects P. Sture Ureland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	341
Historical metrics the caesura in French S. Paul Verluyten Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	356
Structural change and pidginization in the history of the Arabic language Kees Versteegh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	362
Theories of language and the nature of evidence and explanation in historical linguistics Jana Vizmuller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	374
From discourse to syntax for in Early English causal clauses Nancy Wiegand Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	385
Historical linguistics and metaphilology H. Christoph Wolfart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	394
On the historical roots of the philology and historical linguistics Breandán Ö Buachalla Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	425
Scribal practise and historical phonology Henning Andersen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	433
Discussion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	442
Concluding remarks Elizabeth Closs Traugott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	460
Index Fontium et Nominum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	467
Index Linguarum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	508
Index Rerum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	516

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Papers from the Fifth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Galway, April 6–10 1981

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