Historical Linguistics 2011 : selected papers from the 20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Osaka, 25-30 July 2011 / edited by Ritsuko Kikusawa, Lawrence A. Reid.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Kikusawa, Ritsuko.

Reid, Lawrence Andrew.

Conference Name:

International Conference on Historical Linguistics (20th : 2011 : Osaka, Japan)

International Conference on Historical Linguistics.

Series:

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; Series IV, v. 326.

Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; volume 326

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historical linguistics--Congresses.

Historical linguistics.

Language and history--Congresses.

Language and history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (347 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Starting from Sapir's (1921) concept of linguistic "drift", this chapter explores long-term morphosyntactic change in Ancient Egyptian, with particular attention to the typological shift from agglutinative-synthetic to largely analytic morphological structure. The momentum for the continuing and pervasive analyticization process is to be sought in the profusion of a broad range of auxiliary verb constructions. The flipside of the drift towards analyticity is the decreasing morphological productivity of synthetic inflectional patterns. The structurally marked features of the Coptic particle system can however not exclusively be explained by the general pattern of analytic drift. Rather, the global effects of the long-term analyticization process have been optimized by a short-term process of accelerated grammaticalization during a period of language revival and genesis.

Contents:

HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS 2011

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Foreword and Acknowledgements

Editors' introduction

1. Introduction

2. Overview of presentations at ICHL 20

3. Comments on papers selected for the present volume

4. Conclusion

References

I. Grammaticalization

The role of historical research in building a model of Sign Language typology, variation, and change

2. Historical research

3. Implications for Sign Language typology and variation

4. Summary

On the origin of Niger-Congo nominal classification

2. The inherited noun class system of Niger-Congo

3. Alternative systems of nominal classification in Niger-Congo

4. Towards a model of Niger-Congo noun class genesis

5. Conclusion

Abbreviations

A closer look at subjectification in the grammaticalization of English modals: From the main verb mo

2. Data

3. Subjectification in the grammaticalization of must

Sources for examples

Subjectivity encoding in Taiwanese Southern Min

2. Third person singular pronoun and functional markers in TSM

3. The functions of the constructions hoo7 i1 and khit4hoo7 i1

4. The encoding of subjectification via the form of grammaticalization in hoo7 i1 and khit4hoo7 i1

II. Problems in historical comparison and reconstruction

Emergence of the tone system in the Sanjiazi dialect of Manchu

1. Overview of the Manchu language

2. Accent and tones in Sanjiazi Manchu

3. How did the low tone emerge?

Searching for undetected genetic links between the languages of South America

1. Introduction.

2. The Amerind hypothesis and the languages of South America

3. Extent and representation of South American language diversity

4. Recent advances in the reduction of lineages

5. Increased availability of data

6. The harvest of previous historical-comparative research

7. Focusing on undetected phylogenetic relations

8. Bilateral language comparison

9. Selecting the data

10. Preparing the data: Morphological deconstruction

11. Preparing the data: How to deal with semantic shift?

12. Dealing with lexical borrowing and diffusion

13. Final word

Reconstructing the category of "associated motion" in Tacanan languages (Amazonian Bolivia and Peru)

2. The category of associated motion: Definition and typological framework of analysis

3. Associated motion systems in Tacanan languages: A comparison

4. Associated motion systems in neighboring languages: Areal perspective

5. Reconstructing the history of AM systems in Tacanan languages

6. Conclusions

The mirage of apparent morphological correspondence: A case from Indo-European

2. The PIE 3sg middle ending *-to

3. The PIE 1sg secondary middle ending *-h2eh2e

III. Historical development of morphosyntactic features

Analogy as a source of suppletion

1. Interactions between sound change and analogy

2. Neogrammarians: Sound change introduces irregularity and analogy restores regularity

3. Suppletion in synchronic/typological perspective

4. Sources of suppletion

5. Analogy and paradigms

6. The semantics of suppletive lexemes and roots

7. Motivations and mechanisms

8. Frequency and memory

9. Conclusions

The rise and demise of possessive classifiers in Austronesian

2. The historical and geographic background

3. Complex systems of possessive constructions in Austronesian

4. Developments of the alienable-inalienable contrast and of further contrasts in alienable possessi

5. Complex systems of alienable possessive constructions elsewhere

6. Evidence from English

7. Reduction in possessive systems

8. Conclusions

Immediate-future readings of universal quantifier constructions

2. The construction

3. Origin of the construction and diachronic developments

4. Conclusions

The historical development and functional characteristics of the go-adjective sequence in English

2. Previous studies and remaining questions

3. Four types of go-adjective sequences

4. Concluding remarks

Recycling "junk": A case for exaptation as a response to breakdown

2. Exaptation: Exclusively morphological?

3. From phonology to morphology (and syntax)

4. From syntax to discourse

Sapirian 'drift' towards analyticity and long-term morphosyntactic change in Ancient Egyptian

2. The synthetic-analytic dimension in Ancient Egyptian historical morphology

3. Analytic drift and the profusion of auxiliary verb constructions

4. Language genesis and accelerated grammaticalization

5. Concluding remarks

Language index

Index of terms.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027271198

9027271194

OCLC:

862050243