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This volume contains a selection of 34 of the 96 papers presented at ICHL 1993, including several of the contributions to the workshop on Parameters and Typology organized jointly by Henning Andersen and David W. Lightfoot. Major topics represented are grammaticalization and functional renewal (illustrated with changes in romance, French, Pennsylvania German, Afrikaans, English, Finnish), changes in syntax (Indo-European, Indo-Aryan, Ancient Greek, Romanian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Japanese, Dutch, English) and discourse structure (Old Russian, Old French), morphology (German, Turkic), phonology (Romance, Italian, French, German, Old English, English). Several papers include sociolinguistic, areal, and typological perspectives on change; a few are specifically concerned with reconstruction or with the principles of reconstruction, and several demonstrate the continued importance of the philological methods in the study of texts.

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Author:   Henning Andersen (University of California at Los Angeles)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   124
Weight:   0.980kg
ISBN:  

9789027236272

ISBN 10:   9027236275
Pages:   460
Publication Date:   18 May 1995
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

1. Regrammaticalization and Regrammaticalization of the inchoative suffix (by Allen, Andrew); 2. Light shed on problems of Turkic conjugation: the northeast Turkic progressive present in - Ipca(t) and the 'mixed' conjugation (by Anderson, Gregory D.S.); 3. On the history of relative clauses in French and some of its dialects (by Auger, Julie); 4. Functional renewal (by Brinton, Laurel J.); 5. Passives and ergatives in middle Indo-Aryan (by Bubenik, Vit); 6. Evidence of grammaticalization in Pennsylvania German (by Burridge, Kate); 7. Old froms for new concepts: the recategorization of possessive duplications in Mexican Spanish (by Company Company, Concepcion); 8. On subjectification in modal adverbs (by Conradie, C. Jac); 9. Gender, class, and prestige in the spread of an allophonic rule (by Cravens, Thomas D.); 10. Reconstruction of the Proto-Romance syllable (by Cull, Naomi); 11. The development of word-final /b/ in English (by Danchev, Andrei); 12. Areal linguistics in prehistory: evidence from Indo-European aspect (by Drinka, Bridget); 13. The later stages in the development of the definite article: evidence from French (by Epstein, Richard); 14. Parameters underlying the organization of medieval Russian texts (by Gvozdanovic, Jadranka); 15. What the choice of the overt nominalizer NO did to Mmodern Japanese syntax and semantics (by Horie, Kaoru); 16. On the categorical evolution: a case study in Spanish possessives (by Ishikawa, Masataka); 17. Regression and creation in the double accusative in Ancient Greek (by Jacquinod, Bernard); 18. Mophological reanalysis and typology: the case of the Greman r- plural and why English did not develop it (by Kastovsky, Dieter); 19. On the grammaticization of the definite article SE in spoken Finnish (by Laury, Ritva); 20. Identifying an Old French text with the help of dialect analysis (by Lofstedt, Leena); 21. Prototypically and agenthood in Indo-European (by Luraghi, Silvia); 22. Genetic congruence versus areal convergence: the misfortune of LAtin AD in Romanian (by Manoliu, Maria M.); 23. On the fate of adjectival declension in Overseas Dutch (with some notes on the history of Dutch) (by Marle, Jaap van); 24. Clitic placement from Old to Modern European Portuguese (by Martins, Ana Maria); 25. A diachronic view of prepositional verbs of emotion in Spanish (by Melis, Chantal); 26. Phonologically based mmorphological change: high-vowel deletion and pardigmatic implications in Old English (by Murray, Robert W.); 27. Diachronic stable structural features (by Nichols, Johanna); 28. The diachronic distibution of bare and prepositional infinitives in English (by Nunes, Jairo); 29. Object shift in Old Spanish: a minimalist theory approach (by Parodi, Claudia); 30. Lexical diffusion as a guide to scribal intent: a comparison of ME eo and e spellings in the PETERBOROUGH CHRONICLE and the ORMULUM (by Phillips, Betty S.); 31. Verb-seconding in Old English (by Pintzuk, Susan); 32. the thematic structure of the main clause in OLd French, OR versus SI (by Reenen, Pieter van); 33. on different ways of optimizing the sound shape of words (by Ronneberger-Sibold, Elke); 34. Exaptation and grammaticalization (by Vincent, Nigel); 35. Author's addresses; 36. Index of names; 37. Index of languages

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