Historical linguistics, 1997 : selected papers from the 13th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Düsseldorf, 10-17 August 1997 /

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Meeting name:	International Conference on Historical Linguistics (13th : 1997 : Düsseldorf, Germany)
Imprint:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©1998.
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 409 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 164 Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 164.
Subject:	Historical linguistics -- Congresses. Historical linguistics. Electronic books. Conference papers and proceedings.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11121998

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Other authors / contributors:	Schmid, Monika S. Austin, Jennifer R. Stein, Dieter, 1946-
ISBN:	9789027275684 9027275688 9781556198809 1556198809 1556198809 9027236690 9789027236692
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Print version record.
Summary:	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, F.
Other form:	Print version: International Conference on Historical Linguistics (13th : 1997 : Düsseldorf, Germany). Historical linguistics, 1997. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©1998

Table of Contents:

1. Sound Laws
2. Passives in Western Malayo-Polynesian
3. What can This Be?
4. Grammmatical and Lexical Aspect in Akkadian and Proto-Semitic
5. Euphemism with Attitude
6. The\Loss of the Voice Dimension Between Late Latin and Early Romance
7. How a Historical Linguist and a Native Speaker Understand a Complex Morphology
8. The\Evolution of Grammar
9. Yiddish and Hebrew
10. Degenerate Feet in Tacanan Languages
11. The\Evolution of O in Open Position
12. The\Structure of ra-Deletion in Japanese
13. Can Grammaticalization be Explained Invisible Handedly?
14. Toward a `Standard Yiddish' Pronounciation
15. The\Evolution of Adverbial Subordinators in Europe
16. A\corpus-Based Model for the Description of Language Change and Variation in Nominal Classification exemplified by Dutch Seventeenth Century Varieties
17. Towards an Explanation of some Morphological Changes which `Should Never Have Happened'
18. On the Conservatism of Embedded Clauses
19. Velars and Palatals in Old English Alliteration
20. The\Sequencing of Grammaticization Effects
21. What Research on Creole Genesis Can Contribute to Historical Linguistics
22. The\Borrowing of Meaning as a Cause of Internal Syntactic Change
23. Grammaticalization of Complex Verbal Constructions in Finnish
24. Two Models for the Study of Language Contact
25. A\Motivated Account of the Semantic Evolution of Watch and its Catalan Equivalents
26. Subject Index
27. Index of Languages

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