PAPERS from the 3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- PREFACE -- PROGRAM OF III.=3.ICHL -- Table of contents -- SYNCHRONIC, DIACHRONIC, AND PANCHRONIC LINGUISTICS -- NOTE: -- REFERENCES: -- THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN DIACHRONIC LINGUISTICS AND DIALECTOLOGY: SOME REFINEMENTS OF TRUDGILLS FORMULA -- 0. ABSTRACT -- 1. DIALECT BORROWING AS A MEANS OF LANGUAGE CHANGE -- 2. CRITICISM OF DIALECT BORROWING AS AN EXPLANATION OF LANGUAGE CHANGE -- 3. TRUDGILL'S FORMULA -- 4. TESTING TRUDGILL'S FORMULA: THE INFLUENCE OF THE DIALECT OF AMSTERDAM ON THE DIALECTS OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD -- 5. FINAL REMARKS -- NOTES : -- REFERENCES : -- DEVELOPMENT OF TONES IN LANGUAGES WITH DISTINCTIVE TONAL ACCENTS -- NOTES: -- REFERENCES: -- DIACHRONY IN SYNCHRONY -- 0. SYNCHRONY AND DIACHRONY DEFINED -- 1. EARLIEST EVIDENCE -- 2. 19TH CENTURY HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS -- 3. PHILOLOGISTS -- 4. TRADITIONAL DIALECTOLOGISTS -- 5. TRADITIONAL GRAMMARIANS -- 6. STRUCTURALISTS -- 7. T.G. LINGUISTS -- 8. SOCIOLINGUISTS -- 9. VARIATIONISTS -- 10. PRESCRIPTIVISTS -- 11. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION -- NOTES: -- REFERENCES: -- DETERMINISM IN LINGUISTICS: NEOGRAMMARIAN AND TRANSFORMATIONALIST -- REFERENCES: -- HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF TONE PATTERNS -- INTRODUCTION -- TONAL DEVELOPMENT DUE TO CONSONANTAL INFLUENCE -- TONAL DEVELOPMENT AND VOWELS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES : -- SHORT-TERM AND LONG-TERM TELEOLOGY IN LINGUISTIC CHANGE -- 1. PRELIMINARY REMARKS -- 2. A JUSTIFICATION OF TELEOLOGY -- 3. TERMINOLOGICAL CLARIFICATIONS -- 4. THE GOAL OF SHORT-TERM TELEOLOGICAL CHANGE -- 5. SUBDIVISIONS WITHIN THE OVER-ALL LINGUISTIC SYSTEM -- 6. TELEOLOGICAL EXPLANATION OF SHORT-TERM CHANGE -- 7. THE INDIVIDUAL-PSYCHOLOGICAL VERSION OF THE TELEOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONOF SHORT-TERM CHANGE EQUALS RATIONAL EXPLANATION.

8. LONG-TERM TELEOLOGICAL CHANGE OR DRIFT -- 9. EXAMPLES -- A. Phonology and Morphology -- 10. A COMPARISON WITH ANDERSEN'S (1974) TYPOLOGY OF LINGUISTIC CHANGE -- 11. CONCLUDING REMARK -- NOTES: -- REFERENCES: -- SOUND CHANGE AND PERCEPTUAL COMPENSATION -- NOTES: -- REFERENCES: -- THE NEOGRAMMARIAN DOCTRINE: BREAKTHROUGH OR EXTENSION OF THE SCHLEICHERIAN PARADIGM A PROBLEM IN LINGUISTIC HISTORIOGRAPHY -- 1.0 The Problem Defined -- 2.0 Theoretical Presuppositions -- 3.0 Considerations for the Historical Argument -- 4.0 'Schleicherian Paradigm' vs 'Neogrammarian Breakthrough' -- 5.0 Concluding Remarks -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- OBSERVATIONS ON THE SOURCES, TRANSMISSION, AND MEANING OF 'INDO-EUROPEAN' AND RELATED TERMS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF LINGUISTICS -- 1.0 Notes on the development of the concept of 'Indo-European' -- 2.0 On the origin of 'Indo-European' -- 3.0 On the origin of 'Indo-Germanic ' -- 4.0 On the origin, uses and abuses of 'Aryan' -- 5.0 Concluding Remarks -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- SEMANTIC INVESTITURE OF UNDERSPECIFIED UNITS IN SYNTAX -- 1. THE "PROBLEM": INFINITIVAL POSTMODIFIERS -- 2. DEMONSTRATION OF UNDERSPECIFIED MODALITY -- 3. EXPLANATIONS -- 3.1. Nature of Language as a Means of Communication -- 3.2. Perception -- 3.3. Nature of the Infinitive -- 3.4. Underspecified Modality -- 3.5. Nature of "have/be" as Underspecified Elements -- 4. CONCLUSIONS -- 4.1. The Perceptual Basis of Grammatical Theory -- 4.2. Findings and Principles of Gestalt Psychology -- 4.3. The Contrastive Approach -- 4.4. Panchrony: Dynamic Synchrony as a Basis for Diachronic Change -- 4.5. Synthesis vs. Analysis -- NOTES: -- REFERENCES: -- THE PHONETIC NATURE OF THE NEO-ŠTOKAVIAN ACCENT SHIFT IN SERBO-CROATIAN -- REFERENCES: -- HOMO : HVMVS AND THE SEMITIC COUNTERPARTS: THE OLDEST CULTURALLY SIGNIFICANT ETYMOLOGY? -- NOTES -- REFERENCES.

LA DESINENCE FEMININE -esse -- NOTES : -- ABREVIATIONS: -- A. Dictionnaires Utilisés: -- B. Textes: -- OUVRAGES CONSULTÉS: -- BETWEEN MONOGENESIS AND POLYGENESIS -- NOTES: -- REFERENCES: -- ON COMPARATIVE SYNTAX -- 0. INTRODUCTION: -- 1. THE COMPARATIVE METHOD: -- 1.1. Regularity in Sound Change: -- 1.2. Regularity in Syntactic Change: -- 1.3. Further Complicating Factors: -- 1.4. Priorities: -- 2. WORD ORDER TYPOLOGIES: -- 2.1. Contradiction in the Method: -- 2.2. Priorities for Research: -- 2.2.1. The Borrowability of Typological Characteristics: -- 2.2.2. The Relative Power of Individual Shifts: -- 2.2.3. The Relative Chronology of Changes in Shifts: -- 2.2.4. Internal Counter-consistent Tendencies: -- 3. EXPLANATION IN SYNTACTIC CHANGE: -- 3.1. Internal Causes: -- 3.2. External Causes: -- 4. CONCLUSIONS: -- REFERENCES: -- A SYNTACTIC CORRELATE OF STYLE SWITCHING IN THE CANTERBURY TALES -- APPENDIX -- REFERENCES: -- EVIDENCE OF AUSLAUTSVERHÄRTUNG IN OLD SAXON -- INTRODUCTION -- THE OLD SAXON CONSONANTS -- THE LABIALS IN FINAL POSITION -- THE DENTALS IN FINAL POSITION -- THE VELARS IN FINAL POSITION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES: -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY: -- THE APPLICATION OF THE COMPARATIVE METHOD TO PHILIPPINE LANGUAGES -- NOTES : -- REFERENCES : -- HISTORICAL ANALOGY AND THE PEIRCEAN CATEGORIES -- THE PIE WORD ORDER CONTROVERSY AND WORD ORDER IN LITHUANIAN -- NOTES: -- REFERENCES: -- ON THE PROBLEM OF MERGER -- REFERENCES: -- DISCRIMINATION OR MERGER BY SYNCOPATION IN DIFFERENT MORPHOPHONEMIC STRUCTURES IN DIFFERENT DIALECTS -- THE WORD-AND-PARADIGM MODEL AND LINGUISTIC CHANGE: THE VERBAL SYSTEM OF OJIBWA -- THE LATINATE TRADITION -- OJIBWA TRANSITIVE AND INTRANSITIVE PARADIGMS -- THE INFLECTIONAL NEUTRALIZATION OF THE TRANSITIVITY OPPOSITION -- THE WORD-AND-PARADIGM MODEL OF LINGUISTIC CHANGE -- DRIFT AND TYPOLOGICAL CHANGE -- NOTES : -- POSTSCRIPT:.

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