Historical linguistics 2007 : selected papers from the 18th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, 6-11 August 2007 / edited by Monique Dufresne, Fernande Dupuis, Etleva Vocaj.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Dufresne, Monique.

Dupuis, Fernande.

Vocaj, Etleva.

Conference Name:

International Conference on Historical Linguistics (18th : 2007 : Montreal, Quebec)

International Conference on Historical Linguistics

Series:

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; Series IV, 308.

Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; 308

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historical linguistics--Congresses.

Historical linguistics.

Linguistics--Congresses.

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For more than three decades, the International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL) has been characterized by diversity, both in terms of the theoretical frameworks used by its researchers and the wide variety of languages that are analyzed. ICHL 18, which took place at the Université du Québec à Montréal in August 2007, was no exception to the continuation of this tradition. The articles in the present volume encompass many different approaches and a wide range of theories, including grammaticalization, generative approaches to linguistic change and variation, reanalysis, the use of analogy, and the interplay between internal and external factors. The volume is divided into four sections, dealing with phonology, with syntax, morphology, and semantics, with external factors in linguistic change, and with tools and methodologies. This way, this volume aims to be a reflection of the diverse trends in current historical linguistic study.

Contents:

Foreword & acknowledgements

Introduction

pt. I. Phonology

Middle English vowel length in French loanwords / Ashley L. Burnett

Dental fricatives and stops in Germanic : deriving diachronic processes from synchronic variation / Bridget Smith

Dialect variation and the Dutch diminutive : the role of prosodic templates / Laura Catharine Smith

pt. II. Morphology, syntax and semantics

On the disappearance of genitive types in Middle English : objective genitives with nouns of love and fear and the nature of syntactic change / Cynthia L. Allen

An asymmetric view on stage II in Jespersen's cycle in the West Germanic languages / Anne Breitbarth

Temporal reference and grammaticalization in the Spanish perfect(ive) / Mary T. Copple

(Un)-interpretable features and grammaticalization / Viviane Deprez

Imperative morphology in diachrony evidence from the Romance languages / Martin Maiden, Andrew Swearingen & Paul O'Neill

VO vs V(

) O en français / Christiane Marchello-Nizia

On the development of recipient passives in DO languages : a case study / Chantal Melis & Marcela Flores

The emergence of DP in the history of English : the role of the mysterious genitive / Fuyo Osawa

A diachronic view of psychological verbs with dative experiencers in Spanish and Romanian / María Luisa Rivero & Constanta Rodica Diaconescu

On the loss of the masculine genitive plural in Cypriot Greek : language contact or internal evolution? / Ioanna Sitaridou & Marina Terkourafi

The rise of peripheral modifiers in the noun phrase / Freek Van de Velde

Wild variation, random patterns, and uncertain data / Dieter Wanner

pt. III. Sociolinguistics and dialectology

Le changement linguistique dans la langue orale selon deux recherches sur le terrain séparées d'un siècle / Montserrat Adam-Aulinas

Patrons sociolinguistiques chez trois générations de locuteurs acadiens / Louise Beaulieu & Wladyslaw Cichocki

Change of functions of the first person pronouns in Chinese / Vicky Tzuyin Lai & Zygmunt Frajzyngier

Vinderup in real time : a showcase of dialect levelling / Signe Wedel Schøning & Inge Lise Pedersen

Variation in real time : a case of sound change in Catalan / Orland Verdú

pt. IV. Tools and methodology

UNIDIA : a database for deriving diachronic universals / Mahé Ben Hamed & Sébastien Flavier

Visualization, validation and seriation : application to a corpus of medieval texts / Fernande Dupuis & Ludovic Lebart

Quantifying linguistic changes : experiments in Norwegian language history / Helge Sandøy

Historical core vocabulary : spring and/or anchor : on tendencies and mechanisms of language evolution / Valentyna Skybina & Iryna Galutskikh

Index of languages and terms

Index of subjects and terms.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612444883

9781282444881

1282444883

9789027288813

902728881X

OCLC:

712986719