Historical linguistics 2003 : selected papers from the 16th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Copenhagen, 11-15 August 2003 /
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| Meeting name: | International Conference on Historical Linguistics (16th : 2003 : Copenhagen, Denmark) |
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| Imprint: | Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., 2005. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 319 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. 257 Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 257. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11143674 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- Preface
- Typological reflections on loss of morphological case in Middle Low German and in the Mainland Scandinavian languages
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Chronology
- 3. Case marking in Middle Low German and ways of marking morphological case in NPs
- 4. The borrowing hierarchy
- 5. Typological and areal perspectives on the development of case marking
- 6. Concluding remarks
- Notes
- References
- Ethnoreconstruction in Kok-Pap243;nk
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The languages and their historical development
- 3. The fronting of *o (<*u) to KB e
- 4. The raising of *a to KB e
- 5. Conclusion
- References
- Raising verbs vs. auxiliaries
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Danish at-nci-nexus constructions
- 3. Predicative vs. non-predicative verbs
- 4. Raising verbs vs. auxiliaries
- a synchronic analysis
- 4.1. Raising verbs
- 4.2. Auxiliaries
- 5. Raising verbs vs. auxiliaries
- a diachronic hypothesis
- 6. Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- On the origin of the final unstressed [i] in Brazilian and other varieties of Portuguese
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1. Status qu230;stionis
- 2. Analysis of the corpus (13th to 16th centuries)
- 2.1. Forms with final etymological -i (<I)
- 2.2. Forms with final ''non-etymological'' -i (<E; I)
- 3. Conclusions: Towards a sociolinguistic reconstruction
- Notes
- References
- Socio-historical evidence for copula variability in rural Southern America
- 1. Introduction
- 2. History of the copula in English
- 3. American innovation
- 3.1. R-lessness as a reason for absence in Advance
- 3.2. Influence from AAVE
- 4. Other Southern American copula studies
- 5. The copula in Advance
- 5.1. Results of Advance, N.C.
- 5.2. Age
- 5.3. Gender
- 5.4. Class
- 5.5. Linguistic environments
- Absence only
- 6. African-American Influence
- 7. Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Main stress left in Early Middle English
- 1. Pertinacity in grammar
- 2. Change in the English stress system
- 3. An early generative account: Halle & Keyser (1971)
- 4. A Parametric Account
- 4.1. Old English stress (Dresher & Lahiri 1991)
- 4.2. Middle English stress
- 4.3. Early Latin borrowings
- 4.4. Changes in direction of parsing and main stress
- 5. Conclusion: Conservatism amid change
- Note
- References
- Some dialectal, sociolectal and communicative aspects of word order variation and change in Late Middle English
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Researching word order competition
- 3. Dialect input into London sociolects
- 4. Findings in close-up
- 5. Word order competition in East Anglia
- 6. The London sociolects and the emerging standard
- 7. Reprofiling Geoffrey Chaucer
- 8. Variation and accommodation in John Capgrave
- 9. Geoffrey Chaucer's audiences
- 10. Conclusion
- Note
- References
- Using universal principles of phonetic qualitative reduction in grammaticalization to explain the Old Spanish shift from ge to se
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Confusion of sibilants
- 3. Analogy with reflexive se
- 4. Substitution by reflexive se
- 5. Phonological concomitants of grammaticalization
- 6. The change ge> se due to qualitative reduction
- 7. Textua.