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Germanic linguistics
（Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science, ser. 4 . Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 162 . Historical linguistics 1995 : selected papers from the 12th International Conference on Historical Linguistics,
J. Benjamins, c1998
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Description
The Twelfth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, which is the major forum for the presentation of work in progress in the field of diachronic linguistics, took place at the University of Manchester in August 1995. The quality and breadth of the abstracts submitted for the general programme was such that four parallel sessions were needed throughout the conference. The present volume contains selected papers which deal with the Germanic languages. A companion volume, edited by J.C. Smith and Delia Bentley, contains papers on general problems in historical linguistics and studies of non-Germanic languages. The conference reflected the current health of diachronic linguistics. There were more papers and more participants than at past conferences, and the discussion covered a broader range of languages than hitherto.
Sometimes it has been possible to isolate a particular preoccupation which has dominated much of the conference; but the overall impression to be gained from the Manchester meeting was one of stimulating diversity - the discipline appears to be moving forward on many fronts simultaneously, yet without losing focus. This stimulating diversity is well reflected in this important collection.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. A corpus study of would + have + past-participle (by Boyland, Joyce Tang)
- 3. From modal auxiliary to lexical verb: the curious case of Pennsylvania German wotte (by Burridge, Kate)
- 4. A subject-verb agreement hierarchy: evidence from analogical change in modern English dialects (by Chapman, Carol)
- 5. Language change as reranking of constraints (by Cho, Young-mee Yu)
- 6. Loss of prototypical meanings in the history of English semantics or semantic redeployment (by Dekeyser, Xavier)
- 7. How a man changed a parameter value: the loss of SOV in Estonian subclauses (by Ehala, Martin)
- 8. Some constraints on the borrowability of syntactic features (and why none of them work) (by Farrar, Kimberley)
- 9. On the (non)loss of polarity sensitivity: Dutch ooit (by Hoeksema, Jack)
- 10. The development of secondary stress in Old English (by Hutton, John)
- 11. Morphological restructuring: the case of Old English and Middle English verbs (by Kastovsky, Dieter)
- 12. Backdating the English Constraint Grammar Parser for the analysis of English historical texts (by Kyto, Merja)
- 13. Vowel variation in Proto-Germanic ai in 16th and 17th-century Holland (by Leuvensteijn, Arjan van)
- 14. Language prescription: a success in failure's clothing? (by Millar, Sharon)
- 15. Reconstructing the social dimension of diachronic language change (by Nevalainen, Terttu)
- 16. Grammaticalization versus reanalysis: the case of possessive constructions in Germanic (by Norde, Muriel)
- 17. Word frequency and lexical diffusion in English stress shifts (by Phillips, Betty S.)
- 18. Post-verbal complements in Old English (by Pintzuk, Susan)
- 19. Semantic stability in derivationally related words (by Raffelsiefen, Renate)
- 20. Language change in progress: morphological erosion in present-day "South African Dutch" and 18th century "Cape Dutch" (by Raidt, Edith H.)
- 21. Phonological simplification vs. stylistic differentiation in the history of German word stress (by Ronneberger-Sibold, Elke)
- 22. What is metonymy? (by Warren, Beatrice)
- 23. On the development of marked negation systems: the Dutch situation in the seventeenth century (by Wouden, Ton van der)
- 24. On the development of incorporating structures in German (by Wurzel, Wolfgang Ullrich)
- 25. Index of subjects
- 26. Index of names
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