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

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Meeting name:International Conference on Historical Linguistics (17th : 2005 : Madison, Wis.)
Imprint:Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2007.
Description:1 online resource (viii, 413 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:English
Series:Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 284
Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 284.
Subject:Historical linguistics -- Congresses.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Ancient Languages.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Historical & Comparative.
Historical linguistics.
Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11213266
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Other authors / contributors:Salmons, Joe, 1956-
Dubenion-Smith, Shannon.
ISBN:9789027292162
9027292167
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9781282152816
9786612152818
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9789027247995
9027247994
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
English.
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Summary: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.
Other form:Print version: International Conference on Historical Linguistics (17th : 2005 : Madison, Wis.). Historical linguistics 2005. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2007
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Foreword
  • 2. Part I. Grammaticalization
  • 3. Lexicalization and grammaticalization all over again
  • 4. Grammaticalization as reduction: Focus constructions in Chiapas Zoque
  • 5. Metaphor and teleology do not drive grammaticalization
  • 6. Part II. Syntax and semantics
  • 7. Processing factors in syntactic variation and change: Clitics in Medieval and Renaissance Spanish
  • 8. Dynamic Syntax and dialogue modelling: Preliminaries for a dialogue-driven account of syntactic change
  • 9. An\economy approach to the triggering of the Russian instrumental predicate case
  • 10. Change and variation in ga/no conversion in Tokyo Japanese
  • 11. Perfect change: Synchrony meets diachrony
  • 12. Variable use of negation in Middle Low German
  • 13. Is there a DP in Old English?
  • 14. Part III. Morphology
  • 15. Some semantic and pragmatic aspects of case-loss in Old French
  • 16. The\final stages of deflection: The case of Afrikaans het "have"
  • 17. Demonstrative paradigm splitting in the Pilbara languages of Western Australia
  • 18. Infinitival forms in Aramaic
  • 19. The\role of productivity in word-formation change
  • 20. Part IV. Phonetics and phonology
  • 21. Structured imbalances in the emergence of the Korean vowel system
  • 22. Final features and proto-Uto-Aztecan: A contribution using morphological reconstruction
  • 23. Facts, theory and dogmas in historical linguistics: Vowel quantity from Latin to Romance
  • 24. On the irregularity of Open Syllable Lengthening in German
  • 25. The\resilience of prosodic templates in the history of West Germanic
  • 26. Part V: Variation
  • 27. Urban interactions and written standards in Early Modern German
  • 28. The\Hollandish roots of Pella Dutch in Iowa
  • 29. Language index
  • 30. Name index
  • 31. Subject index