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Historical linguistics 1999 : selected papers from the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, 9-13 August 1999 / edited by Laurel J. Brinton ; with the editorial assistance of Desiree Lundstrom.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- International Conference on Historical Linguistics (14th : 1999 : Vancouver, B.C.)
- Series:
- Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; Series IV, v. 215.
- Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 215
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historical linguistics--Congresses.
- Historical linguistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (410 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS 1999
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Dedication
- Table of contents
- Contributors 'addresses
- 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 classiffication, and cultural history
- Gradience and linguistic change
- Distinctive vowel length in Old French: Evidence and Implications
- Remains of a submerged continent: Preaspiration in the languages of Northwest Europe
- Rapid change among expletive polarity items
- The conversational factor in language change: From prenominal to postnominal demonstratives
- On the origin of the Portuguese inflected infinitive: A new perspective on an enduring debate
- Innovation of the indirect reflexive in Old French
- Lexical forces shaping the evolution of grammar
- Why "me "and "thee "?
- The English s -genitive: Animacy, topicality, and possessive relationship in a diachronic perspective
- Default inheritance hierarchies and the evolution of inflectional classes
- On the eve of a new paradigm: The current challenges to comparative linguistics in a Kuhnian perspective
- Modeling koineization
- Coreference in the Popolocan languages
- Atlantis Semitica: Structural contact features in Celtic and English
- Index of languages and language families
- Index of names
- Index of subjects
- CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786612162602
- 9781282162600
- 1282162608
- 9789027298317
- 9027298319
- OCLC:
- 70769055
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