Main description:
The present volume contains revised versions of selected papers from the general sessions of ICHL 9. The 34 papers cover topics from the full range of contemporary historical linguistic scholarship. The papers address issues of language change in a large variety of languages and language families, both Indo-European and non-Indo-European: students of Germanic linguistics will likely find the volume to be of particular interest, as more than a dozen contributions deal with developments in Afrikaans, Dutch, English, German and Icelandic. The volume includes an index of names and languages.
Table of contents:
- List of Participants
- The Natural Science Background to the Development of Historical-Comparative Linguistics
- The Lexicon and Linguistic Change
- The Semantic Development of can and could from Old English to the Present
- Latin System's enérgeia vs. Greek System's argía
- The Coalesence of the Participle and the Gerund/Gerundive
- Episode Boundary Markers in Old English Discourse
- On Proposed Universals of Grammatical Borrowing
- Patterns of Syncretism in Indo-European
- A Morphonological Rule for the Past Tense Formation of Irregular English Verbs
- Contamination in Morphological Change in Algonquian Languages
- The Rise of a New Conceptualization Pattern
- Les résultats de ubi et unde dans l'histoire du français (avec une considération particulière de l'ancien et du moyen français)
- Aspectogenesis in South Dravidian
- Diachronic Syntax and Information Packaging
- Determining the Synchronic Syntax of a Dead Language
- Open Syllable Lengthening in Middle English
- Syntactic Changes in Late Middle English
- Sur l'origine de l'emploi des formes toniques du pronom personnel régime avant les formes verbales non finies (infinitives ou participiales) en ancien français
- Verb Serialization and Word Order
- The Role of Paradigms in the Phonetic Detail of Sound Change
- From Staging Strategies to Syntax
- The Inflectional Systems of Overseas Dutch
- Reconstructing the Unidentified
- Zur Geschichte der Distanzstellung im Deutschen
- Double Modals in Early English
- The Role of Women in Linguistic Change
- Early Diphthongization of Palatalized West Germanic [u:]
- A Moraic Model of the Diachronic Development of Long Vowels and Falling Diphthongs in Friulian
- Did 'Aktionsart' Ever 'Compensate' Verbal Aspect in Old and Middle French?
- Drift as an Organic Outcome of Type
- An African-American Linguistic Enclave
- Linking Changes in Icelandic
- Coping with Partial Information in Historical Linguistics
- The Effects of the Yod on the Vocalic and Consonantal Systems
- Index of Languages (Language Families, Dialects)
- Index of Names
The present volume contains revised versions of selected papers from the general sessions of ICHL 9. The 34 papers cover topics from the full range of contemporary historical linguistic scholarship. The papers address issues of language change in a large variety of languages and language families, both Indo-European and non-Indo-European: students of Germanic linguistics will likely find the volume to be of particular interest, as more than a dozen contributions deal with developments in Afrikaans, Dutch, English, German and Icelandic. The volume includes an index of names and languages.
Table of contents:
- List of Participants
- The Natural Science Background to the Development of Historical-Comparative Linguistics
- The Lexicon and Linguistic Change
- The Semantic Development of can and could from Old English to the Present
- Latin System's enérgeia vs. Greek System's argía
- The Coalesence of the Participle and the Gerund/Gerundive
- Episode Boundary Markers in Old English Discourse
- On Proposed Universals of Grammatical Borrowing
- Patterns of Syncretism in Indo-European
- A Morphonological Rule for the Past Tense Formation of Irregular English Verbs
- Contamination in Morphological Change in Algonquian Languages
- The Rise of a New Conceptualization Pattern
- Les résultats de ubi et unde dans l'histoire du français (avec une considération particulière de l'ancien et du moyen français)
- Aspectogenesis in South Dravidian
- Diachronic Syntax and Information Packaging
- Determining the Synchronic Syntax of a Dead Language
- Open Syllable Lengthening in Middle English
- Syntactic Changes in Late Middle English
- Sur l'origine de l'emploi des formes toniques du pronom personnel régime avant les formes verbales non finies (infinitives ou participiales) en ancien français
- Verb Serialization and Word Order
- The Role of Paradigms in the Phonetic Detail of Sound Change
- From Staging Strategies to Syntax
- The Inflectional Systems of Overseas Dutch
- Reconstructing the Unidentified
- Zur Geschichte der Distanzstellung im Deutschen
- Double Modals in Early English
- The Role of Women in Linguistic Change
- Early Diphthongization of Palatalized West Germanic [u:]
- A Moraic Model of the Diachronic Development of Long Vowels and Falling Diphthongs in Friulian
- Did 'Aktionsart' Ever 'Compensate' Verbal Aspect in Old and Middle French?
- Drift as an Organic Outcome of Type
- An African-American Linguistic Enclave
- Linking Changes in Icelandic
- Coping with Partial Information in Historical Linguistics
- The Effects of the Yod on the Vocalic and Consonantal Systems
- Index of Languages (Language Families, Dialects)
- Index of Names