Papers from the VIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Pozna&#x0144;, 22–26 August 1983

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Papers from the VIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Poznań, 22–26 August 1983

Edited by: Jacek Fisiak

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1985

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Volume 34 | Current Issues in Linguistic Theory

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This volume presents a selection of papers from the 6th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL), which was held in 1983, in Poznań, Poland.

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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	vii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
List of participants Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Conference programme Publicly Available Download PDF	xix
Divergence and convergence in linguistic evolution Henrik Birnbaum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Areal linguistics and its implications for historical linguistics Lyle Campbell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	25
Paradigm economy in Latin nouns Andrew D. Carstairs-McCarthy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	57
Ablaut a phoenix in the history of Afrikaans C. Jac Conradie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	71
An analysis and synthesis in sound change Andrei Danchev Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	83
On the diachrony of subtractive poerations evidence for semiotically based models of natural phonology and natural morphology from northern anatolien greek dialects Wolfgang U. Dressler and Veneeta Acson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	105
Did old English have a middle voice? Thomas H.K. Fraser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	129
The vowel /a:/ in English Hubert Gburek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	139
Framing the linguistic actions scene in Old and Present-day English CWEþAN, SECGAN, SP(R)ECAN and Present-day English SPEAK, TALK, SAY and TELL compared Louis Goossens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	149
Lexical restructuring rule loss versus rule intersection; evidence from Italian Rita de Grandis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	171
Theories of sound change fail if they try predict too much Jadranka Gvozdanović Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	183
Chance and necessity in diachronic syntax — word order typologies and the position of modern Persian relative clauses Hubert Haider Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	199
Umlaut as a harmony process Camiel S.J.N. Hamans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	217
Divergent patterns of word prder in contemporary French Martin B. Harris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	235
Articulatory modes and typological universals the puzzle of Bantu ejectives ans aspirates Robert K. Herbert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	251
Velar segments in Old English and Old Irish Raymond Hickey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	267
On the semasiologization of phonological rules the semiotic evolution of Finnish consonant gradation Eugene Holman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	281
Another explanation for the development of s before l in Norwegian Ernst Håkon Jahr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	291
Wilhelm Scherer’s Zur geschichte der deutschen Sprache a milestone in 19th-century linguistics Kurt R. Jankowsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	301
Proto-Indo-European consonantism methodological and further typological concerns Brian D. Joseph Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	313
The place of Saussure’s Memoire in the development of historical linguistics E.F.K. Koerner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	323
Indo-European numerals and the sexagesimal system Witold Mańczak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	347
Absolute versus relative comparison typology and development Thomas Markey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	353
Diachronic morphologization the circumstances surrounding the birth, growth and decline of noun incorporation Marianne Mithun Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	365
For a diachrony-in-synchrony analysis Ruta Nagucka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	395
On the possible clusters of mb, nd, and ŋ g in Proto- Japanese Fred C.C. Peng Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	409
Are there dysfunctional changes? Anna Giacalone Ramat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	427
The Indo-European origin of the Balti Slavic — ē — and — a - preterite Jens Elmegård Rasmussen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	441
Variability in word formation patterns and productivity in the American South Edgar W. Schneider Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	467
Rule ordering and the dynamics of diatopic language variation Johan Taeldeman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	489
Le développement d’un auxiliaire modal en yiddish lozn ‘laiser’ Moshe Taube Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	499
Confrontation and association Elizabeth Closs Traugott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	515
The bifurcation theory of the Germanic and German consonant shifts synopsis and some further thoughts Theo Vennemann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	527
Prosodic structures and the development of French schwa S. Paul Verluyten Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	549
On the origins and developments of American English Wolfgang Viereck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	561
Quelques problèmes des recherche étymologiques sur les emprunts lexicaux Bogdan Walczak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	571
Morphologische Natürlichkeit und morphologischer Wandel. Zur vorhersagbarkeit von sprachveranderüngen Wolfgang Ullrich Wurzel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	587
Anders Ahlqvist Summing up Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	601
Index of languages Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	607
Index of names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	612

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Papers from the VIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Poznań, 22–26 August 1983

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