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Perspectives on Historical Linguistics : Papers from a conference held at the meeting of the Language Theory Division, Modern Language Assn., San Francisco, 27-30 December 1979.
Title:
Perspectives on Historical Linguistics : Papers from a conference held at the meeting of the Language Theory Division, Modern Language Assn., San Francisco, 27-30 December 1979.
Author:
Lehmann, Winfred P.
ISBN:
9789027280688
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (391 pages)
Series:
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory
Contents:
PERSPECTIVES ON HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Dedication -- Copyright page -- PREFATORY NOTE -- Table of contents -- CHARTS, FIGURES AND TABLES -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION: DIACHRONIC LINGUISTICS -- BUILDINGON EMPIRICAL FOUNDATIONS -- 1. The fundamental principles -- 2. Paradoxes and problems of linguistic change -- 2.1 Five problems for the study of language change -- 3. Sources of new data and new findings on linguistic change -- 3.2. The analysis of variation in historical texts -- 3.4 Contributions from dialect geography -- 3.6 Linguistic change in small-scale societie -- 4. Building a theory of language change -- 5. The interface of language and society -- NOTES -- A SEMIOTIC MODEL OF DIACHRONIC PROCESS PHONOLOGY -- NOTES -- SEMANTICALLY-MARKED ROOT MORPHEMES IN DIACHRONIC MORPHOLOGY -- I. A neglected dimension of Indo-European morphology -- II. Physical defects designated by -a- in Latin root morphemes -- III. Samples of Earlier Research in Critical Retrospect -- IV. Consecutive Stages in the Crystallization of the Dominant Type of Spanish Primary Adjectives -- V. Analysis of the Italian matto, pazzo, sciocco Type -- VI. A Counterpart in English Derivation: From snowy through bloody to flimsy -- (A) The General Problem -- (B) English and German Compared -- C.The Sources and Stratification of the English Adjectival Suffix -y -- (D) The Breaking-up of a Tradition -- (E) The Concluding Stage of the Development -- VII. Conclusion -- NOTES -- FROM PROPOSITIONAL TO TEXTUAL AND EXPRESSIVE MEANINGS: SOME SEMANTIC-PRAGMATIC ASPECTS OF GRAMMATICALIZATION -- NOTES -- ROMANCEETYMOLOGY -- I. Background -- II. Etymology and Phonology -- III. Etymology and Morphology -- IV. Lexical Blends and Lexical Loss -- V. Conclusion -- NOTE -- DIRECTIONS IN INDO-EUROPEAN ETYMOLOGY WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY.

I. INTRODUCTION -- II. HITTITE šakki 'KNOWS', -za šakki 'ACKNOWLEDGES' -- III. THE INDO-EUROPEAN MIDDLE AND OTHER TRANSITIVIZING DEVICES -- (See Chart I) -- (See Chart II) -- (See Chart III) -- See Chart IV -- See Chart V -- See Chart VI -- See Chart VII -- See Chart VIII -- See Chart IX -- IV. RELATED MORPHOSYNTACTIC CHANGES -- V: REVISING THE HYPOTHESIS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- SUBJECT INDEX -- AUTHOR INDEX.
Abstract:
This volume presents seven extensive essays by specialists in their respective fields of historical linguistics. The first essay after the Introduction states the principles presented in Directions for Historical Linguistics (1968) and assesses the progress made since then towards constructing a general theory of language change. Like the following essays on phonology and morphology, it poses new questions that have arisen in the increasingly ambitious research. Historical attention to discourse, the topic of the next essay, is virtually new, though it too finds predecessors among philologists who devoted themselves to texts. Finally, two essays treat etymology, one concentrating on the rigorously investigated Romance field, the other on Indo-European, especially on new insights prompted by attention to Hittite.
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