Historical linguistics 2007 : selected papers from the 18th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, 6-11 August 2007
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Historical linguistics 2007 : selected papers from the 18th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, 6-11 August 2007
(Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science, ser. 4 . Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 308)
John Benjamins Publishing, c2009
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Contents of Works
- Pt. 1. Phonology. Middle English vowel length in French loanwords / Ashley L. Burnett
- Dental fricatives and stops in Germanic: deriving diachronic Processes from synchronic variation / Bridget Smith
- Dialect variation and the Dutch diminutive: the role of prosodic templates / Laura Catharine Smith
- Pt. 2. Morphology, syntax and semantics. On the disappearance of genitive types in Middle English: objective genitives with nouns of love and fear and the nature of syntactic change / Cynthia L. Allen
- An asymmetric view on stage II in Jespersen's cycle in the West Germanic languages / Anne Breitbarth
- Temporal reference and grammaticalization in the Spanish perfect(ive) / Mary T. Copple
- (Un)-interpretable features and grammaticalization / Viviane Deprez
- Imperative morphology in diachrony evidence from the Romance languages / Martin Maiden, Andrew Swearingen & Paul O'Neill
- VO vs V(...)O en français / Christiane Marchello-Nizia
- On the development of recipient passives in DO languages: a case study / Chantal Melis & Marcela Flores
- The emergence of DP in the history of English: the role of the mysterious genitive / Fuyo Osawa
- A diachronic view of psychological verbs with dative experiencers in Spanish and Romanian / María Luisa Rivero & Constanta Rodica Diaconescu
- On the loss of the masculine genitive plural in Cypriot Greek: language contact or internal evolution? / Ioanna Sitaridou & Marina Terkourafi
- The rise of peripheral modifiers in the noun phrase / Freek Van de Velde
- Wild variation, random patterns, and uncertain data / Dieter Wanner
- Pt. 3. Sociolinguistics and dialectology. Le changement linguistique dans la langue orale selon deux recherches sur le terrain séparées d'un siècle / Montserrat Adam-Aulinas
- Patrons sociolinguistiques chez trois générations de locuteurs acadiens / Louise Beaulieu & Wladyslaw Cichocki
- Change of functions of the first person pronouns in Chinese / Vicky Tzuyin Lai & Zygmunt Frajzyngier
- Vinderup in real time: a showcase of dialect levelling / Signe Wedel Schøning & Inge Lise Pedersen
- Variation in real time: a case of sound change in Catalan / Orland Verdú
- Pt. 4. Tools and methodology. UNIDIA: a database for deriving diachronic universals / Mahé Ben Hamed & Sébastien Flavier
- Visualization, validation and seriation: application to a corpus of medieval texts / Fernande Dupuis & Ludovic Lebart
- Quantifying linguistic changes: experiments in Norwegian language history / Helge Sandøy
- Historical core vocabulary: spring and/or anchor: on tendencies and mechanisms of language evolution / Valentyna Skybina & Iryna Galutskikh