Main description:
This volume contains 22 of the 95 papers presented during ICHL 10. The articles included here clearly reflect the on-going interest in the general mechanisms of language change, the close relationship between present-day historical linguistics and linguistic theory, and the renewed interest in language contact. The papers deal with more general issues as well as with specific problems in diverse languages and language groups.
The volume contains three indexes: of names, of languages, and of subjects.
Table of contents:
- Preface
- General programme of the conference
- The tendency towards right branching in the development and acquisition of Latin and French
- Linguistics and its positivist handicap
- Question words in 18th-century and 20th-century Sranan
- The explanation of syntactic change
- Traffic between the pragmatic and structural levels
- Parameter resetting
- Old French and constraints on consonant epenthesis
- The definite article
- Language change
- Suppression of a word-order pattern in Westgermanic
- Modularity in language change
- Blood, tears, and murder
- On leapfrogging in historical phonology
- Greenberg's American Indian classification
- The grammaticalization of Spanish haber plus participle
- Latin to Romance (again!)
- Linguistic variants and language change
- 6;Typological conservatism' and framing constructions in German morphosyntax
- On the evidence for bimoric vowels in Early English
- Longterm evolution of the syntax of discourse and the Swahili person markers
- Jewish historical linguistics
- Gerunds and their objects in the Modern English period
- Indices (prepared by Boudewijn Smid)
- Index of names
- Index of languages
- Index of subject matter
This volume contains 22 of the 95 papers presented during ICHL 10. The articles included here clearly reflect the on-going interest in the general mechanisms of language change, the close relationship between present-day historical linguistics and linguistic theory, and the renewed interest in language contact. The papers deal with more general issues as well as with specific problems in diverse languages and language groups.
The volume contains three indexes: of names, of languages, and of subjects.
Table of contents:
- Preface
- General programme of the conference
- The tendency towards right branching in the development and acquisition of Latin and French
- Linguistics and its positivist handicap
- Question words in 18th-century and 20th-century Sranan
- The explanation of syntactic change
- Traffic between the pragmatic and structural levels
- Parameter resetting
- Old French and constraints on consonant epenthesis
- The definite article
- Language change
- Suppression of a word-order pattern in Westgermanic
- Modularity in language change
- Blood, tears, and murder
- On leapfrogging in historical phonology
- Greenberg's American Indian classification
- The grammaticalization of Spanish haber plus participle
- Latin to Romance (again!)
- Linguistic variants and language change
- 6;Typological conservatism' and framing constructions in German morphosyntax
- On the evidence for bimoric vowels in Early English
- Longterm evolution of the syntax of discourse and the Swahili person markers
- Jewish historical linguistics
- Gerunds and their objects in the Modern English period
- Indices (prepared by Boudewijn Smid)
- Index of names
- Index of languages
- Index of subject matter