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This volume presents a selection from the papers given at the 13th International Conference on Historical Linguistics. It offers a window on the current state of the art in historical linguistics: the papers cover a wide range of different languages, different language families, and different approaches to the study of linguistic change, ranging from optimality theory, theories of grammaticalization and the invisible hand, treatments of language contact and creolization to the linguistic consequences of political correctness. Among the languages under discussion are Akkadian, Catalan, Dutch, Finnish, Japanese, Sranan, Western Malayo-Polynesian, Yiddish, and a variety of Romance and Native American languages.

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Author:   Monika S. Schmid (Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf) ,  Jennifer R. Austin (Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf) ,  Dieter Stein (Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf) ,  Dieter Stein
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   164
Weight:   0.845kg
ISBN:  

9789027236692

ISBN 10:   9027236690
Pages:   409
Publication Date:   15 October 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Sound Laws: Reactions Present and Past (by Adamska-Salaciak, Arleta); 2. Passives in Western Malayo-Polynesian: An Asian Perspective (by Blake, Barry J.); 3. What can This Be?: A west African Contribution to Sranan (by Bruyn, Adrienne); 4. Grammmatical and Lexical Aspect in Akkadian and Proto-Semitic (by Bubenik, Vit); 5. Euphemism with Attitude: Politically Charged Language Change (by Burridge, Kate); 6. The Loss of the Voice Dimension Between Late Latin and Early Romance (by Cennamo, Michela); 7. How a Historical Linguist and a Native Speaker Understand a Complex Morphology (by Chafe, Wallace); 8. The Evolution of Grammar: Evidence from Indo-European Perfects (by Drinka, Bridget); 9. Yiddish and Hebrew: Borrowing Through Oral language Contact (by Gold, Elaine); 10. Degenerate Feet in Tacanan Languages: Unmarkedness in OT (by Jacobs, Haike); 11. The Evolution of O in Open Position: Parallel Developments in French and Dutch Dialects (by Jong, Thera de); 12. The Structure of ra-Deletion in Japanese (by Katada, Fusa); 13. Can Grammaticalization be Explained Invisible Handedly? (by Klausenburger, Jurgen); 14. Toward a 'Standard Yiddish' Pronounciation: An Instrumentally Aided Phonetic Analysis (by Kleine, Anke); 15. The Evolution of Adverbial Subordinators in Europe (by Kortmann, Bernd); 16. A corpus-Based Model for the Description of Language Change and Variation in Nominal Classification exemplified by Dutch Seventeenth Century Varieties (by Leuvensteijn, Arjan van); 17. Towards an Explanation of some Morphological Changes which 'Should Never Have Happened' (by Maiden, Martin); 18. On the Conservatism of Embedded Clauses (by Matsuda, Kenjiro); 19. Velars and Palatals in Old English Alliteration (by Minkova, Donka); 20. The Sequencing of Grammaticization Effects: A Twist from North America (by Mithun, Marianne); 21. What Research on Creole Genesis Can Contribute to Historical Linguistics (by Mufwene, Salikoko S.); 22. The Borrowing of Meaning as a Cause of Internal Syntactic Change (by Prince, Ellen F.); 23. Grammaticalization of Complex Verbal Constructions in Finnish (by Salminen, Taru); 24. Two Models for the Study of Language Contact: A Psycho-Linguistic perspective Versus a Socio-Cultural Perspective (by Smits, Caroline); 25. A Motivated Account of the Semantic Evolution of Watch and its Catalan Equivalents (by Verdaguer, Isabel); 26. Subject Index; 27. Index of Languages

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