Historical lingusitics 1995 : selected papers from the 12th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Manchester, August 1995. Volume 1, general issues and non-Germanic languages / edited by John Charles Smith, Delia Bentley.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Smith, John Charles, 1950-

Bentley, Delia.

Conference Name:

International Conference on Historical Linguistics (12th : 1995 : Manchester, England)

Series:

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; Series IV, v. 162.

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 162

Historical linguistics 1995 : selected papers from the 12th international conference on historical linguistics, Manchester, August 1995 ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historical linguistics--Congresses.

Historical linguistics.

Physical Description:

xi, 438 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume contains papers on general issues of language change, as well as specific studies of non-Germanic languages, including Romance, Slavonic, Japanese, Australian languages, and early Indo-European. A second volume, edited by Richard M. Hogg and Linda van Bergen, will contain papers on Germanic.

Contents:

HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS 1995

Editorial page

Title page

Copyright page

Table of contents

Introduction

Emergence and Evolution of French Nasal Vowels Reconsidering Data through the Interplay of Production and Perception

0. Introduction

1. History of vowel nasalization

2. Theoretical framework and constraints at issue

3. Vowel nasalization before word-internal RHYME nasal consonants

4. Vowel nasalization before intervocalic nasal consonants

5. Vowel nasalization before final nasal consonants

6. Theoretical consequences: long vowels

7. Theoretical consequences: unstressed vowels

8. Conclusion

References

Development of Aspect from Ancient Slavic to Bulgaro-Macedonian

1. The functional overlap between the perfect and the aorist in Ancient Slavic

2. The rise of the ' have'-perfect in Macedonian

3. The origins of the inferential mode in Bulgaro-Macedonian

4. Conclusions

Patterns of 'Active' Syntax in Late Latin Pleonastic Reflexives

1.Split Intransitivity/Unaccusativity

2. Late Latin pleonastic se/sibi

3. Se/sibi as markers of Split Intransitivity/Unaccusativity

4. Conclusion

Comparative Reconstitution

1. Introduction

2. The Nyungar case

3. Reconstitution by the comparative method

Expletives and Change A Morphological Approach to Syntactic Change Monique Dufresne, Fernande Dupuis &amp

Mireille Tremblay

2. Expletives

3. Demonstratives

4. The evolution of ce and cela

5. Conclusion

Variationbetween the French Clitics y and lui Semantics vs. Morphology

0.Introduction

1. Alternations between y and lui in contemporary standard French

2. An imperfect semantic specialization

3 A preferred specialization on a formal basis.

4. Conclusion

On Simplicity in Linguistic Reconstruction

Recent Changes in the Tonology of Kyoto Japanese

1. Phonological and morphophonological preliminaries

2. Distribution of tonal verb classes in relation to prosodic length

3. Inflected and derived forms of L-verbs

4. Active metatony

5. Passive metatony

6. -mono derivatives

7. Summary and discussion

On Some Grammaticalization Patterns for Auxiliaries

2. The Italian verbs andare and venire in auxiliary function

3. Morphosyntactic restrictions and the semantic characterization of andare + past participle

4. Morphosyntactic restrictions and semantic characterization of venire + past participle

5. Andare, venire + gerund

6. Summary and conclusions

Kakari Particles and the Merger of the Predicative and Attributive Forms in Old Japanese

Sources

Is Quantifier-Floating in Japanese a Recent Innovation?Contextual Analysis of the Numeral Quantifier Construction in Old Japanese

0. Introduction.

1. Brief profiles of Japanese Q-constructions.

2. Discourse functions of NXQ and NQ.

3. How to distinguish NØQ from NQ

4. Post-nominal quantifier constructions in Old Japanese

5. Reassessment

6. Conclusion

Vedic Causative Nasal Presents and their Thematicization A Functional Approach

1. The problem

2. Preliminary remarks

3. A preliminary hypothesis: transitivity and thematicization

4. Rigvedic evidence

5. Evidence from a later text: Atharvaveda

6. A tentative explanation and conclusions

Abbreviations

Translations

The 'Invisible Hand' At Work 'Phonemic Change as a 'Phenomenon of the Third Kind'

The Origins of Definiteness Marking

1. Introduction.

2. Definiteness and functional categories

3. Demonstrative to article

4. The development of DP

5. Definite clitics

From Deixis ad Oculos to Discourse Markers via Deixis ad Phantasma

1. Amu vs. acmu in sixteenth-century texts: from deixis to narrative markers.

2. Amu, acmu and acum in seventeenth-century texts

3. Conclusions

The Legacy of Recycled Aspect

1. The durative

2. The imperfective/perfective distinction

3. Imperfective statives

4. Continuatives

5. Habitual imperfectives

6. Habitual perfectives

7. Frequentatives

8. Implications of the Central Pomo system

The Development of Transitivity in the Chibchan Languages of Colombia

1. Historical and comparative background

2. Persistent morpho-syntactic typology of Colombian Chibchan

3. Morpheme correspondences in Colombian Chibchan

4. Distinctive characters of the languages

5. Hypothetical paths of development

6. Continuing tendencies , persistent typology, semantic transmutations

7. Types of semantic reanalysis

Capitalization

2. A case-study: Spanish ser and estar

3. The nature of capitalization

Indo-European *d, *1, and *dl

1. The so-called Sabine l

2. The data

3. Indo-European *dl

4. Individual developments

Declension in Old and Middle French Two Opposing Tendencies

0. Summary

1. Weakening

2. Reinforcement and regularization

3. Breakdown of the case system

From Latin Metre to Romance Rhythm

1. Metrum and rhythmus

2. The parameters of Latin stress

3. The emergence of the n-syllable window

4. From Latin to Romance prosody

5. The demise of quantity sensitivity: Romance rhythm

References.

Diverging Sources of the Perfective Aspect Morphology in Tibeto-Kinnauri External Motivation or Internal Development?

2. Aspect morphology in Tibeto-Kinnauri

3. Discussion

On the Origins of the Order of Agreement and Tense Markers

2. The cross-linguistic data

3. The origins of tense and agreement markers

4. Morpheme order

5. The origins of T(Agr)

6. T(Agr) and word order type

7. Concluding remarks

Character-Based Reconstruction of a Linguistic Cladogram

2. The method

3. Results

Bringing the Invisible Hand to Cognitive Grammar

2. Spread and actuation

3. The Invisible Hand

4. Cognitive Grammar

5. Other cases

6. Conclusions

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613158390

9781283158398

1283158396

9789027283986

9027283982

OCLC:

735598941