Historical Linguistics 1995 : selected papers from the 12th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Manchester, August 1995. Volume 2, Germanic linguistics /

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Imprint:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1998.
Description:	1 online resource (370 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 162 Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 162.
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/11258545

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Varying Form of Title:	Germanic linguistics
Other authors / contributors:	Hogg, Richard M. Bergen, Linda van.
ISBN:	9789027284044 9027284040 128315840X 9781283158404
Notes:	Print version record.
Summary:	The Twelfth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, which is the major forum for the presentation of work in progress in the field of diachronic linguistics, took place at the University of Manchester in August 1995. The quality and breadth of the abstracts submitted for the general programme was such that four parallel sessions were needed throughout the conference. The present volume contains selected papers which deal with the Germanic languages. A companion volume contains papers on general problems in historical linguistics and studies of non-Germanic languages. The conference.
Other form:	Print version: Hogg, Richard M. Historical Linguistics 1995. Volume 2, Germanic linguistics. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, ©1998

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
2. A\corpus study of would + have + past-participle
3. From modal auxiliary to lexical verb
4. A\subject-verb agreement hierarchy
5. Language change as reranking of constraints
6. Loss of prototypical meanings in the history of English semantics or semantic redeployment
7. How a man changed a parameter value
8. Some constraints on the borrowability of syntactic features (and why none of them work)
9. On the (non)loss of polarity sensitivity
10. The\development of secondary stress in Old English
11. Morphological restructuring
12. Backdating the English Constraint Grammar Parser for the analysis of English historical texts
13. Vowel variation in Proto-Germanic ai in 16th and 17th-century Holland
14. Language prescription
15. Reconstructing the social dimension of diachronic language change
16. Grammaticalization versus reanalysis
17. Word frequency and lexical diffusion in English stress shifts
18. Post-verbal complements in Old English
19. Semantic stability in derivationally related words
20. Language change in progress
21. Phonological simplification vs. stylistic differentiation in the history of German word stress
22. What is metonymy?
23. On the development of marked negation systems
24. On the development of incorporating structures in German
25. Index of subjects
26. Index of names

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