Main description:
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.
Table of contents:
- Sound Laws
- Passives in Western Malayo-Polynesian
- What can This Be?
- Grammmatical and Lexical Aspect in Akkadian and Proto-Semitic
- Euphemism with Attitude
- The Loss of the Voice Dimension Between Late Latin and Early Romance
- How a Historical Linguist and a Native Speaker Understand a Complex Morphology
- The Evolution of Grammar
- Yiddish and Hebrew
- Degenerate Feet in Tacanan Languages
- The Evolution of Ó in Open Position
- The Structure of ra-Deletion in Japanese
- Can Grammaticalization be Explained Invisible Handedly?
- Toward a 6;Standard Yiddish' Pronounciation
- The Evolution of Adverbial Subordinators in Europe
- A corpus-Based Model for the Description of Language Change and Variation in Nominal Classification exemplified by Dutch Seventeenth Century Varieties
- Towards an Explanation of some Morphological Changes which 6;Should Never Have Happened'
- On the Conservatism of Embedded Clauses
- Velars and Palatals in Old English Alliteration
- The Sequencing of Grammaticization Effects
- What Research on Creole Genesis Can Contribute to Historical Linguistics
- The Borrowing of Meaning as a Cause of Internal Syntactic Change
- Grammaticalization of Complex Verbal Constructions in Finnish
- Two Models for the Study of Language Contact
- A Motivated Account of the Semantic Evolution of Watch and its Catalan Equivalents
- Subject Index
- Index of Languages
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.
Table of contents:
- Sound Laws
- Passives in Western Malayo-Polynesian
- What can This Be?
- Grammmatical and Lexical Aspect in Akkadian and Proto-Semitic
- Euphemism with Attitude
- The Loss of the Voice Dimension Between Late Latin and Early Romance
- How a Historical Linguist and a Native Speaker Understand a Complex Morphology
- The Evolution of Grammar
- Yiddish and Hebrew
- Degenerate Feet in Tacanan Languages
- The Evolution of Ó in Open Position
- The Structure of ra-Deletion in Japanese
- Can Grammaticalization be Explained Invisible Handedly?
- Toward a 6;Standard Yiddish' Pronounciation
- The Evolution of Adverbial Subordinators in Europe
- A corpus-Based Model for the Description of Language Change and Variation in Nominal Classification exemplified by Dutch Seventeenth Century Varieties
- Towards an Explanation of some Morphological Changes which 6;Should Never Have Happened'
- On the Conservatism of Embedded Clauses
- Velars and Palatals in Old English Alliteration
- The Sequencing of Grammaticization Effects
- What Research on Creole Genesis Can Contribute to Historical Linguistics
- The Borrowing of Meaning as a Cause of Internal Syntactic Change
- Grammaticalization of Complex Verbal Constructions in Finnish
- Two Models for the Study of Language Contact
- A Motivated Account of the Semantic Evolution of Watch and its Catalan Equivalents
- Subject Index
- Index of Languages