General issues and non-Germanic languages
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General issues and non-Germanic languages
（Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science, ser. 4 . Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 161 . Historical linguistics 1995 : selected papers from the 12th International Conference on Historical Linguistics,
J. Benjamins, c2000
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This volume contains papers on general issues of language change, as well as specific studies of non-Germanic languages, including Romance, Slavonic, Japanese, Australian languages, and early Indo-European. A second volume, edited by Richard M. Hogg and Linda van Bergen, contains papers on Germanic.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Emergence and Evolution of French Nasal Vowels: Reconsidering data through the interplay of production and perception (by Azra-Ikezawa, Jean-Luc)
- 3. Development of Aspect from Ancient Slavic to Bulgaro-Macedonian (by Bubenik, Vit)
- 4. Patterns of 'Active' Syntax in Late Latin Pleonastic Reflexives (by Cennamo, Michela)
- 5. Comparative Reconstitution (by Dench, Alan)
- 6. Expletives and Change: A morphological approach to syntactic change (by Dufresne, Monique)
- 7. Variation between the French Clitics y and lui: Semantics vs. morphology (by Dumas, Denis)
- 8. On Simplicity in Linguistic Reconstruction (by Fox, Anthony)
- 9. Recent Changes in the Tonology of Kyoto Japanese (by Frellesvig, Bjarke)
- 10. On Some Grammaticalization Patterns for Auxiliaries (by Giacalone Ramat, Anna)
- 11. Kakari Particles and the Merger of the Predicative and Attributive Forms in Old Japanese (by Hendriks, Peter)
- 12. Is Quantifier-Floating in Japanese a Recent Innovation? Contextual analysis of the numeral quantifier construction in Old Japanese (by Kim, Alan Hyun-Oak)
- 13. Vedic Causative Nasal Presents and their Thematicization: A functional approach (by Kulikov, Leonid)
- 14. The 'Invisible Hand' at Work: Phonemic change as a 'phenomenon of the third kind' (by Lloyd, Paul M.)
- 15. The Origins of Definiteness Marking (by Lyons, Christopher)
- 16. From Deixis ad Oculos to Discourse Markers via Deixis ad Phantasma (by Manoliu, Maria M.)
- 17. The Legacy of Recycled Aspect (by Mithun, Marianne)
- 18. The Development of Transitivity in the Chibchan Languages of Colombia (by Ostler, Nicholas)
- 19. Capitalization (by Pountain, Christopher J.)
- 20. Indo-European *d, *l, and *dl (by Pulju, Tim)
- 21. Declension in Old and Middle French: Two opposing tendencies (by Reenen, Pieter van)
- 22. From Latin Metre to Romance Rhythm (by Saltarelli, Mario)
- 23. Diverging Sources of Perfective Aspect Morphology in Tibeto-Kinnauri: External motivation or internal development? (by Saxena, Anju)
- 24. On the Origins of the Order of agreement and Tense Markers (by Siewierska, Anna)
- 25. Character-Based Reconstruction of a Linguistic Cladogram (by Taylor, Ann)
- 26. Bringing the Invisible Hand to Cognitive Grammar (by Winters, Margaret E.)
- 27. Index
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