Historical Linguistics 2005: Selected papers from the 17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Madison, Wisconsin, 31 July - 5 August 2005

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Joseph C. Salmons, Shannon Dubenion-Smith
John Benjamins Publishing, Aug 15, 2007 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 413 pages
This volume contains 22 revised papers originally presented at the 17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, held August 2005 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. The papers cover a broad range of languages, including well-studied languages of Europe but also Aramaic, Zoque and Uto-Aztecan, Japanese and Korean, Afrikaans, and the Pilbara languages of Australia. The theoretical approaches taken are equally diverse, often bringing together aspects of formal and functional theories in a single contribution. Many of the chapters provide fresh data, including several drawing on data from electronic corpora. Topics range from traditional comparative reconstruction to prosodic change and the role of processing in syntactic change.
 

Contents

Lexicalization and grammaticalization all over again
3
Grammaticalization as reduction
21
Metaphor and teleology do not drive grammaticalization
33
Syntax and semantics
49
Processing factors in syntactic variation and change
51
Dynamic Syntax and dialogue modelling
73
An economy approach to the triggering of the Russian instrumental predicate case
103
Change and variation in gano conversion in Tokyo Japanese
119
The role of productivity in wordformation change
257
Phonetics and phonology
273
Structured imbalances in the emergence of the Korean vowel system
275
Final features and protoUtoAztecan
295
Facts theory and dogmas in historical linguistics
311
On the irregularity of Open Syllable Lengthening in German
337
The resilience of prosodic templates in the history of West Germanic
351
Variation
367

Perfect change
133
Variable use of negation in Middle Low German
149
Is there a DP in Old English?
167
Morphology
189
Some semantic and pragmatic aspects of caseloss in Old French
191
The final stages of deflection
207
Demonstrative paradigm splitting in the Pilbara languages of Western Australia
223
Infinitival forms in Aramaic
239
Urban interactions and written standards in Early Modern German
369
The Hollandish roots of Pella Dutch in Iowa
385
Language index
403
Name index
405
Subject index
411
The series CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY
414
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