Historical Linguistics 2005: Selected papers from the 17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Madison, Wisconsin, 31 July - 5 August 2005Joseph C. Salmons, Shannon Dubenion-Smith 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. |
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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 |
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Name index | 405 |
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The series CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY | 414 |
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