Main description:
This is a selection of papers from the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics held August 9-13, 1999, at the University of British Columbia. From the rich program and the many papers given during this conference, the present twenty-three papers were carefully selected to display the state of current research in the field of historical linguistics.
Table of contents:
- Preface
- How far has far from become grammaticalized?
- Recent advances in the reconstruction of the Proto-Munda verb
- Multivariable reanalysis and phonological split
- Are old English conjunct clauses really verb-final?
- Alternation according to person in Italo-Romance
- On ablaut and aspect in the history of Aramaic
- Language change and the phonological lexicon of Korean
- Animals and vegetables, Uto-Aztecan noun derivation, semantic classification, and cultural history
- Gradience and linguistic change
- Distinctive vowel length in Old French
- Remains of a submerged continent
- Rapid change among expletive polarity items
- The conversational factor in language change
- On the origin of the Portuguese inflected infinitive
- Innovation of the indirect reflexive in Old French
- Lexical forces shaping the evolution of grammar
- Why ÉC;meÉD; and ÉC;theeÉD;?
- The English s-genitive
- Default inheritance hierarchies and the evolution of inflectional classes
- On the eve of a new paradigm
- Modeling koineization
- Coreference in the Popolocan languages
- Atlantis Semitica
- Index of languages and language families
- Index of names
- Index of subjects
This is a selection of papers from the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics held August 9-13, 1999, at the University of British Columbia. From the rich program and the many papers given during this conference, the present twenty-three papers were carefully selected to display the state of current research in the field of historical linguistics.
Table of contents:
- Preface
- How far has far from become grammaticalized?
- Recent advances in the reconstruction of the Proto-Munda verb
- Multivariable reanalysis and phonological split
- Are old English conjunct clauses really verb-final?
- Alternation according to person in Italo-Romance
- On ablaut and aspect in the history of Aramaic
- Language change and the phonological lexicon of Korean
- Animals and vegetables, Uto-Aztecan noun derivation, semantic classification, and cultural history
- Gradience and linguistic change
- Distinctive vowel length in Old French
- Remains of a submerged continent
- Rapid change among expletive polarity items
- The conversational factor in language change
- On the origin of the Portuguese inflected infinitive
- Innovation of the indirect reflexive in Old French
- Lexical forces shaping the evolution of grammar
- Why ÉC;meÉD; and ÉC;theeÉD;?
- The English s-genitive
- Default inheritance hierarchies and the evolution of inflectional classes
- On the eve of a new paradigm
- Modeling koineization
- Coreference in the Popolocan languages
- Atlantis Semitica
- Index of languages and language families
- Index of names
- Index of subjects