Explanation in historical linguistics /

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Imprint:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 1992.
Description:	xiv, 238 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory v. 84
Subject:	Historical linguistics -- Congresses Explanation (Linguistics) -- Congresses. Explanation (Linguistics) Historical linguistics. Conference papers and proceedings.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1388666

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Other authors / contributors:	Davis, Garry W. Iverson, Gregory K. Linguistics Symposium of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (19th : 1990)
ISBN:	1556191391 : $69.00
Notes:	Papers presented the 19th annual University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Linguistics Symposium, which was held Apr. 20-22, 1990. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

1. Preface
2. Event structure accounting for the emerging periphrastic tenses and the passive voice in German
3. Historical explanation and historical linguistics
4. Elements of resistance in contact-induced language change
5. Articulatory variability, categorical perception, and the inevitability of sound change
6. On the historical development of marked forms
7. On misusing similarity
8. Reconstruction and syntactic typology
9. Diachronic explanation
10. Grammatical prototypes and competing motivations in a theory of linguistic change
11. Understanding standards
12. Rules and analogy
13. The\development of perfect reduplication in Indo-European
14. A\look at the data for a global etymology
15. Author index
16. Subject index
17. Language index

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