Historical Linguistics 2005: Selected Papers from the 17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Madison, Wisconsin, 31 July-5 August 2005Joe Salmons, Shannon Dubenion-Smith This volume contains 22 revised papers originally presented at the 17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, held August 2005 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. The papers cover a broad range of languages, including well-studied languages of Europe but also Aramaic, Zoque and Uto-Aztecan, Japanese and Korean, Afrikaans, and the Pilbara languages of Australia. The theoretical approaches taken are equally diverse, often bringing together aspects of 'formal' and 'functional' theories in a single contribution. Many of the chapters provide fresh data, including several drawing on data from electronic corpora. Topics range from traditional comparative reconstruction to prosodic change and the role of processing in syntactic change. |
Contents
Focus constructions in Chiapas Zoque | 21 |
Clitics in Medieval | 51 |
Preliminaries | 70 |
An economy approach to the triggering of the Russian instrumental | 103 |
Change and variation in gano conversion in Tokyo Japanese | 119 |
Synchrony meets diachrony | 133 |
Variable use of negation in Middle Low German | 149 |
Is there a DP in Old English? | 167 |
Infinitival forms in Aramaic | 239 |
The role of productivity in wordformation change | 257 |
Structured imbalances in the emergence of the Korean vowel system | 275 |
A contribution using | 295 |
Vowel quantity from | 311 |
On the irregularity of Open Syllable Lengthening in German | 337 |
The resilience of prosodic templates in the history of West Germanic | 351 |
Urban interactions and written standards in Early Modern German | 369 |
Some semantic and pragmatic aspects of caseloss in Old French | 191 |
The case of Afrikaans het have | 207 |
Demonstrative paradigm splitting in the Pilbara languages of Western Australia | 223 |
The Hollandish roots of Pella Dutch in Iowa | 385 |
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