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Historical Linguistics 2015
Selected papers from the 22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Naples, 27-31 July 2015
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Michela Cennamo
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English
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2019
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The collection of articles presented in this volume addresses a number of general theoretical, methodological and empirical issues in the field of Historical Linguistics, in different levels of analysis and on different themes: (i) phonology, (ii) morphology, (iii) morphosyntax, (iv) syntax, (v) diachronic typology, (vi) semantics and pragmatics, and (vii) language contact, variation and diffusion. The topics discussed, often in a comparative perspective, feature a variety of languages and language families and cover a wide range of research areas. Novel analyses and often new diachronic data — also from less known and under-investigated languages — are provided to the debate on the principles, mechanisms, paths and models of language change, as well as the relationship between synchronic variation and diachrony. The volume is of interest to scholars of different persuasions working on all aspects of language change.
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Table of contents
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Introduction
1 - Part I. Phonology
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Chapter 1. Old Irish consonant quality re-examined
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Chapter 2. The use of the past to explain the past
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Chapter 3. Pertinacity in loanwords
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Chapter 4. Ablaut in Armenian nasal declension
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Chapter 5. Gender and declension mismatches in West Nordic
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Chapter 6. The development of gender and countability effects in German ung - and English ing -nominals
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Chapter 7. Where do Italian - ata nouns come from?
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Chapter 8. Diachrony and morphological equilibrium
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Chapter 9. Anti-relevant, contra-iconic but system-adequate
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Chapter 10. Impersonal passives and the suffix - r in the Indo-European languages
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Chapter 11. The Old English verbal prefixes for- and ge-
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Chapter 12. Enclitic -( m ) a ‘but’ / -( y ) a ‘and’ in Hittite
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Chapter 13. State representation and dynamic processes in Homeric Greek
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Chapter 14. Effecting a change
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Chapter 15. Early Indo-European dialects and innovations of aspect systems
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Chapter 16. Perfecting the notion of Sprachbund
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Chapter 17. Parameters in the development of Romance perfective auxiliary selection
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Chapter 18. Adverbs and the left periphery of non-finite clauses in Old Spanish
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Chapter 19. The sources of antipassive constructions
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Chapter 20. A diachronic account of converbal constructions in Old Rajasthani
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Chapter 21. The locative alternation with spray/load verbs in Old English
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Chapter 22. Penetration of French-origin lexis in Middle English occupational domains
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Chapter 23. Meaning change from superlatives to definite descriptions
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Chapter 24. Towards diachronic word classes universals
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Chapter 25. Grammaticalizing the face in a first generation sign language
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Chapter 26. Linguistic divergence under contact
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Chapter 27. Roots and branches of variation across dialects of English
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Chapter 28. Waves in computer simulations of linguistic diffusion
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Index
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Language index
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Historical linguistics
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