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.) |
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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 |
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