Explanation in historical linguistics
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Explanation in historical linguistics
（Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science, ser. 4 . Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 84）
J. Benjamins, 1992
- : us
- : eur
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Papers presented the 19th annual University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Linguistics Symposium, which was held April 20-22, 1990
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Description
This is the first of two volumes deriving from papers presented at the Nineteenth Annual UVM Linguistics Symposium held in Milwaukee in April 1990. The contributions in this volume investigate the general question of what constitutes an explanation of diachronic change, and illustrate their proposals in the context of various specific problems in historical linguistics. The present volume also includes a solicited paper by Eric P. Hamp ("On remote reconstruction") that addresses the validity of distant reconstructions like those of Nostratic and Proto-World.
Table of Contents
- 1. Preface (by Davis, Garry W.)
- 2. Event structure accounting for the emerging periphrastic tenses and the passive voice in German (by Abraham, Werner)
- 3. Historical explanation and historical linguistics (by Anttila, Raimo)
- 4. Elements of resistance in contact-induced language change (by Clements, J. Clancy)
- 5. Articulatory variability, categorical perception, and the inevitability of sound change (by Faber, Alice)
- 6. On the historical development of marked forms (by Forner, Monika)
- 7. On misusing similarity (by Hamp, Eric P.)
- 8. Reconstruction and syntactic typology: A plea for a different approach (by Hock, Hans Henrich)
- 9. Diachronic explanation: putting speakers back into the picture (by Joseph, Brian D.)
- 10. Grammatical prototypes and competing motivations in a theory of linguistic change (by Kemmer, Suzanne)
- 11. Understanding standards (by Klein-Andreu, Flora)
- 12. Rules and analogy (by Moder, Carol Lynn)
- 13. The development of perfect reduplication in Indo-European (by Niepokuj, Mary K.)
- 14. A look at the data for a global etymology: *tik 'finger' (by Salmons, Joseph C.)
- 15. Author index
- 16. Subject index
- 17. Language index
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