Historical linguistics 1999 : selected papers from the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, 9-13 August 1999

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Historical linguistics 1999 : selected papers from the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, 9-13 August 1999

edited by Laurel J. Brinton, with the editorial assistance of Desireé Lundström

(Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science, ser. 4 ; Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 215)

John Benjamins Publishing Company, c2001

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This is a selection of papers from the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics held August 9-13, 1999, at the University of British Columbia. From the rich program and the many papers given during this conference, the present twenty-three papers were carefully selected to display the state of current research in the field of historical linguistics.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Preface
  • 2. How far has far from become grammaticalized? (by Akimoto, Minoji)
  • 3. Recent advances in the reconstruction of the Proto-Munda verb (by Anderson, Gregory D.S.)
  • 4. Multivariable reanalysis and phonological split (by Aski, Janice M.)
  • 5. Are old English conjunct clauses really verb-final? (by Bech, Kristin)
  • 6. Alternation according to person in Italo-Romance (by Bentley, Delia)
  • 7. On ablaut and aspect in the history of Aramaic (by Bubenik, Vit)
  • 8. Language change and the phonological lexicon of Korean (by Cho, Young-mee Yu)
  • 9. Animals and vegetables, Uto-Aztecan noun derivation, semantic classification, and cultural history (by Dakin, Karen)
  • 10. Gradience and linguistic change (by Denison, David)
  • 11. Distinctive vowel length in Old French: Evidence and Implications (by Gess, Randall)
  • 12. Remains of a submerged continent: Preaspiration in the languages of northwest Europe (by Hansson, Gunnar Olafur)
  • 13. Rapid change among expletive polarity items (by Hoeksema, Jack)
  • 14. The conversational factor in language change: From prenominal to postnominal demonstratives (by Manoliu, Maria M.)
  • 15. On the origin of the Portuguese inflected infinitive: A new perspective on an enduring debate (by Martins, Ana Maria)
  • 16. Innovation of the indirect reflexive in Old French (by Miller, D. Gary)
  • 17. Lexical forces shaping the evolution of grammar (by Mithun, Marianne)
  • 18. Why "me" and "thee"? (by Nichols, Johanna)
  • 19. The English s-genitive: Animacy, topicality and possessive relationship in a diachronic perspective (by Rosenbach, Anette)
  • 20. Default inheritance hierarchies and the evolution of inflectional classes (by Stump, Gregory T.)
  • 21. On the eve of a new paradigm: The current challenges to comparative linguistics in a Kuhnian perspective (by Tarpent, Marie-Lucie)
  • 22. Modeling koineization (by Tuten, Donald N.)
  • 23. Coreference in the Popolocan languages (by Veerman-Leichsenring, Annette)
  • 24. Atlantis Semitica: Structural contact features in Celtic and English (by Vennemann, Theo)
  • 25. Index of languages and language families
  • 26. Index of names
  • 27. Index of subjects

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