Main description:
This is the first of two volumes deriving from papers presented at the Nineteenth Annual UVM Linguistics Symposium held in Milwaukee in April 1990. The contributions in this volume investigate the general question of what constitutes an explanation of diachronic change, and illustrate their proposals in the context of various specific problems in historical linguistics. The present volume also includes a solicited paper by Eric P. Hamp ('On remote reconstruction') that addresses the validity of distant reconstructions like those of Nostratic and Proto-World. Content: Garry W. Davis Gregory K. Iverson: Foreword Werner Abraham: Event structure accounting for the emerging periphrastic tenses and the passive voice in German Raimo Anttila: Historical explanation and historical linguistics J. Clancy Clements: Elements of resistance in language contact-induced change Alice Faber: Articulatory variability, categorical perception, and the inevitability of sound change Monika Forner, Jeanette K. Gundel, Kathleen Houlihan Gerald Sanders: On the historical development of marked forms Eric P. Hamp: On misusing similarity Hans Henrich Hock: Reconstruction and syntactic typology: A plea for a different approach Brian D. Joseph: Diachronic explanation: Putting speakers back into the picture Suzanne Kemmer: Grammatical prototypes and competing motivations in a theory of linguistic change Flora Klein-Andreu: Understanding standards Carol Lynn Modor: Rules and analogy Mary Niepokuj: The development of perfect reduplication in Indo-European Joseph E. Salmons: A look at the data for a global etymology. Subject and Language Index.
Table of contents:
- Preface
- Event structure accounting for the emerging periphrastic tenses and the passive voice in German
- Historical explanation and historical linguistics
- Elements of resistance in contact-induced language change
- Articulatory variability, categorical perception, and the inevitability of sound change
- On the historical development of marked forms
- On misusing similarity
- Reconstruction and syntactic typology
- Diachronic explanation
- Grammatical prototypes and competing motivations in a theory of linguistic change
- Understanding standards
- Rules and analogy
- The development of perfect reduplication in Indo-European
- A look at the data for a global etymology
- Author index
- Subject index
- Language index
This is the first of two volumes deriving from papers presented at the Nineteenth Annual UVM Linguistics Symposium held in Milwaukee in April 1990. The contributions in this volume investigate the general question of what constitutes an explanation of diachronic change, and illustrate their proposals in the context of various specific problems in historical linguistics. The present volume also includes a solicited paper by Eric P. Hamp ('On remote reconstruction') that addresses the validity of distant reconstructions like those of Nostratic and Proto-World. Content: Garry W. Davis Gregory K. Iverson: Foreword Werner Abraham: Event structure accounting for the emerging periphrastic tenses and the passive voice in German Raimo Anttila: Historical explanation and historical linguistics J. Clancy Clements: Elements of resistance in language contact-induced change Alice Faber: Articulatory variability, categorical perception, and the inevitability of sound change Monika Forner, Jeanette K. Gundel, Kathleen Houlihan Gerald Sanders: On the historical development of marked forms Eric P. Hamp: On misusing similarity Hans Henrich Hock: Reconstruction and syntactic typology: A plea for a different approach Brian D. Joseph: Diachronic explanation: Putting speakers back into the picture Suzanne Kemmer: Grammatical prototypes and competing motivations in a theory of linguistic change Flora Klein-Andreu: Understanding standards Carol Lynn Modor: Rules and analogy Mary Niepokuj: The development of perfect reduplication in Indo-European Joseph E. Salmons: A look at the data for a global etymology. Subject and Language Index.
Table of contents:
- Preface
- Event structure accounting for the emerging periphrastic tenses and the passive voice in German
- Historical explanation and historical linguistics
- Elements of resistance in contact-induced language change
- Articulatory variability, categorical perception, and the inevitability of sound change
- On the historical development of marked forms
- On misusing similarity
- Reconstruction and syntactic typology
- Diachronic explanation
- Grammatical prototypes and competing motivations in a theory of linguistic change
- Understanding standards
- Rules and analogy
- The development of perfect reduplication in Indo-European
- A look at the data for a global etymology
- Author index
- Subject index
- Language index