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This volume contains 32 of the 95 papers presented during the 10th International Conference on Historical Linguistics. The articles included 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. Topics include: the explanation of syntactic change; modularity in language change; Jewish historical linguistics; and the evidence for bimoric vowels in Early English. The volume contains three indexes: of names, of languages and of subjects.

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Author:   Jaap van Marle
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   107
Weight:   0.670kg
ISBN:  

9789027236098

ISBN 10:   9027236097
Pages:   395
Publication Date:   06 August 1993
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

1. Preface; 2. General programme of the conference; 3. The tendency towards right branching in the development and acquisition of Latin and French (by Bauer, Brigitte L.M.); 4. Linguistics and its positivist handicap (by Bichakjian, Bernard H.); 5. Question words in 18th-century and 20th-century Sranan (by Bruyn, Adrienne); 6. The explanation of syntactic change: a historical perspective (by Campbell, Lyle); 7. Traffic between the pragmatic and structural levels (by Conradie, C. Jac); 8. Parameter resetting (by Disterheft, Dorothy); 9. Old French and constraints on consonant epenthesis (by Dumas, Denis); 10. The definite article: early stages of development (by Epstein, Richard); 11. Language change: complex in its sources and directions, yet simple in systematicity (by Gvozdanovic, Jadranka); 12. Suppression of a word-order pattern in Westgermanic (by Hoeksema, Jack); 13. Modularity in language change (by Ishikawa, Masataka); 14. Blood, tears, and murder: the evidence for Proto-Uto-Aztecan syllable-final consonants (by Manaster-Ramer, Alexis); 15. On leapfrogging in historical phonology (by Minkova, Donka); 16. Greenberg's American Indian classification: a report on the controversy (by Newman, Paul); 17. The grammaticalization of Spanish haber plus participle (by Olbertz, Hella); 18. Latin to Romance (again!): change or genesis? (by Posner, Rebecca); 19. Linguistic variants and language change: deictic variants in some German and Dutch dialects vis-a-vis Afrikaans (by Raidt, Edith H.); 20. 'Typological conservatism' and framing constructions in German morphosyntax (by Ronneberger-Sibold, Elke); 21. On the evidence for bimoric vowels in Early English (by Stockwell, Robert P.); 22. Longterm evolution of the syntax of discourse and the Swahili person markers (by Wald, Benji); 23. Jewish historical linguistics: 1981-1991-2001 (by Wexler, Paul); 24. Gerunds and their objects in the Modern English period (by Wurff, Wim van der); 25. Indices (prepared by Boudewijn Smid); 26. Index of names; 27. Index of languages; 28. Index of subject matter

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