Cover image for Historical Linguistics 1991 : Papers from the 10th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam, August 12-16, 1991.
Historical Linguistics 1991 : Papers from the 10th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam, August 12-16, 1991.
Title:
Historical Linguistics 1991 : Papers from the 10th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam, August 12-16, 1991.
Author:
Marle, Jaap van.
ISBN:
9789027277046
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
1 online resource (413 pages)
Series:
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory
Contents:
HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS 1991 -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- General programme of the conference -- The tendency towards right branching in the development and acquisition of Latin and French -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The shift from left to right branching -- 3 The comparison of diachronic and psycholinguistic data -- 4 The diachronic perspective -- REFERENCES -- Linguistics and its positivist handicap -- 1 The philosophical background -- 1.1 Excluding the gods -- 1.2 From legitimate fear to inhibition -- 2 Exhaustive etiology in medicine -- 3 Probing questions in evolutionary biology -- 4 Academic approach in linguistics -- 4.1 Collecting universals -- 4.2 Observing language acquisition -- 4.3 The contributions of typology -- 5 Converging views -- REFERENCES -- Questionwords in 18th-century and 20th-century Sranan -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Question words in 18th-century Sranan -- 3 Question words in 20th-century Sranan -- 4 The system of question words: emergence and development -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- The explanation of syntactic change: a historical perspective -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Some general claims -- 3 The 'growth principle' -- 4 Language acquisition and grammatical change -- 4.1 Reanalysis (reinterpretation, abduction) -- 5 Functionalist perspectives -- 6 External explanations and syntactic borrowing -- 7 Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Traffic between the pragmatic and structural levels -- 1 Constituent restructured on basis of illocution -- 2 Constituent "upgraded" to illocution -- 3 Illocution "downgraded" to lexical item -- Proper names -- Functional diversity -- Labelled phrases -- Compounds -- Morphological integration -- Reduction -- Syntactic fusion or mutation -- Lexicalisation and speech acts -- In conclusion -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- Parameter resetting -- 1 Introduction.

2 The transparency principle -- 3 Abductive reanalysis -- 4 Parameter resetting -- 5 Reevaluating the mechanism of change -- 6 Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Old French and constraints on consonant epenthesis -- Introduction -- 1 Facts -- 1.1 The essential facts of consonant epenthesis -- 1.2 Apparent and genuine exceptions -- 2 Explanation -- 2.1 Alleged syllabic structure -- 2.2 Fundamental objections -- 3 The function of consonant epenthesis -- 3.1 Nasal first, liquid second -- 3.2 Nasal first, obstruent or nasal second -- 3.3 Subsidiary conditions of accent -- 3.4 Other coronal clusters -- 4 Extensions and predictions -- 4.1 A revised typology -- 4.2 A proposal for a formal treatment -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- The definite article: early stages of development -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The definite article in Old French -- 3 The use of pu in Jamul Diegueño -- 3.1 The use of pu in isolated sentences -- 3.2 The use of pu in discourse -- 4 Discussion -- 5 Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Language change: complex in its sources and directions, yet simple in systematicity -- 0 Introduction -- 1 The contemporary Russian case paradigm -- 2 Changes of case functions in the attested history of Russian -- 3 Case function changes and Functional Grammar -- 4 Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- Suppressionof a word-order pattern in Westgermanic -- 1 Westgermanic verb clusters -- 2 VPR through the ages -- 2.1 Dutch -- 2.2 German -- 3 The modern situation. Conclusions and prospectus -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Modularity in language change -- 0 Introduction -- 1 Introduction: syntactic independence and phonological dependence of Old Spanish weak pronouns -- 2 Triggers in linguistic change and history of Sp. WPs -- 2.0 Introduction -- 2.1 Formal trigger -- 2.2 Functional trigger -- 3 Aver as verbal clitic -- 4 Summary and concluding remarks -- NOTES.

REFERENCES -- Blood, tears, and murder: the evidence for Proto-Uto-Aztecan syllable-final consonants -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- 7 -- 8 -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- On leapfrogging in historical phonology -- 1 Terminology: metaphors we jump by -- 2 The leapfrogging test cases from English: the Jones data -- 2.1 Lowering of [i] when lengthened by MEOSL -- 2.2 The Great Vowel Shift case -- 2.3 The Belfast case -- 2.4 Summary: the good and the bad cases -- 3 Consonantal leapfrogging -- 3.1 The reduction of initial kn- and gn- in English -- 3.2 The non-gradualness of/x/ → /f/ -- 3.3 15th c. fn -» sn -- 4 Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Greenberg'sAmerican Indian classification: a report on the controversy -- The background -- The issues -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- The grammaticalization of Spanish haber plus participle -- 0 Introduction -- 1 Latin -- 1.1 Possession -- 1.2 Possessive metaphor -- 1.3 Summary -- 2 Haber plus participle in Spanish -- 2.1 CID -- 2.2 From CID to the Golden Age -- 2.3 From the Golden Age to modern Spanish -- 3 Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Latinto Romance (again!): change or genesis? -- REFERENCES -- Linguistic variants and language change: deictic variants in some German and Dutch dialects vis-à-vis Afrikaans -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Deictic variants in German and Dutch -- 3 The Afrikaans demonstrative pronouns -- 3.1 The situation in presentday Afrikaans -- 3.2 The situation before 1864 -- 3.3 The situation after 1864 -- 4 Conclusion -- 5 Postscript -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 'Typological conservatism' and framing constructions in German morphosyntax -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The inflection of the noun phrase -- 3 Word order -- 3.1 The word order of the noun phrase -- 3.2 The word order of the verb phrase -- 4 Typological considerations -- NOTES -- REFERENCES.

On the evidence for bimoric vowels in Early English -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Longtermevolution of the syntax of discourse and the Swahili person markers -- 1 Introductory remarks -- 2 The Swahili person markers -- 3 The evolution of the Swahili person markers -- 3.1 Topicality and the topic order strategy -- 3.2 Transitivity and the Bantu transitivising extensions -- 3.3 Topicality and transitivity in Pre-Bantu -- 3.4 Late Pre-Bantu evolution of multiple OMs -- 3.5 Reversal of multiple OM order in post-Bantu evolution -- 3.6 Early East Coast Bantu multiple OM order and inherent topicality -- 3.7 Northern East Coast Bantu transicality -- 3.8 Northern East Coast split transicality of inanimate EOs -- 4 Implications of Swahili for a thematic role hierarchy -- 5 A recent innovation in the Swahili OM -- 6 Concluding remarks -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Jewish historical linguistics: 1981-1991-2001 -- 1 The face of Jewish linguistics in 1981 -- 2 The face of Jewish linguistics in 1991 -- 3 The face of Jewish linguistics in 2001 -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Gerunds and their objects in the Modern English period -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The gerund in the Modern English period: empirical data -- 3 A possible explanation for the change -- 4 The syntactic structure of the gerund -- 5 Two grammatical motivations for the polarization of gerunds -- 6 Conclusions -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Index of names -- Index of languages -- Index of subject matter.
Abstract:
This volume contains 22 of the 95 papers presented during ICHL 10. The articles included here clearly reflect the on-going interest in the general mechanisms of language change, the close relationship between present-day historical linguistics and linguistic theory, and the renewed interest in language contact. The papers deal with more general issues as well as with specific problems in diverse languages and language groups.The volume contains three indexes: of names, of languages, and of subjects.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
Electronic Access:
Click to View
Holds: Copies: