Historical linguistics 2017 : selected papers from the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, San Antonio, Texas, 31 July - 4 August 2017 / edited by Bridget Drinka.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Drinka, Bridget, 1951- editor.

Conference Name:

International Conference on Historical Linguistics (23rd : 2017 : San Antonio, Tex.)

Series:

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; Series IV, volume 350.

Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; volume 350

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historical linguistics--Congresses.

Historical linguistics.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xi, 495 pages : illustrations (some color).

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020.

Summary:

"The collected articles in this volume address an array of cutting-edge issues in the field of historical linguistics, including new theoretical approaches and innovative methodologies for studying language through a diachronic lens. The articles focus on the following themes: I. Case & Argument Structure, II. Alignment & Diathesis, III. Patterns, Paradigms, & Restructuring, IV. Grammaticalization & Construction Grammar, V. Corpus Linguistics & Morphosyntax, VI. Languages in Contact. Papers reflect a wide range of perspectives, and focus on issues and data from an array of languages and language families, from new analyses of case and argument structure in Ancient Greek to phonological evidence for language contact in Vietnamese, from patterns of convergence in Neo-Aramaic to the development of the ergative in Basque. The volume contributes substantially to the debate surrounding core issues of language change: the role of the individual speaker, the nature of paths of grammaticalization, the role of contact, the interface of diachrony and synchrony, and many other issues. It should be useful to any reader hoping to gain insight into the nature of language change"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I. Case & argument structure: Strategies for aligning syntactic roles and case marking with semantic properties: The case of the accusative of respect in ancient Greek / Domenica Romagno

Criteria for subjecthood and non-canonical subjects in Classical Greek / Marina Benedetti and Chiara Gianollo

Parallel syncretism in early Indo-European / Steve Rapaport

Dative possessor in ditransitive Spanish predication, in diachronic perspective / Rosa María Ortiz Ciscomani

'Liking' constructions in Spanish:The role of frequency and syntactic stimulus in constructional change / Andrea Mojedano Batel

Part II. Alignment & Diathesis: The actualization of new voice patterns in Romance: Persistence in diversity / Michela Cennamo

Ergative from passive in Proto-Basque / Mikel Martínez-Areta

Part III. Patterns, paradigms, & restructuring: Synchrony, diachrony, and indexicality / Henning Andersen

Ablaut pattern extension as partial regularization strategy in German and Luxembourgish / Jessica Nowak

Remotivating inflectional classes: An unexpected effect of grammaticalization / Livio Gaeta

From noun to quantifier: Pseudo-partitives and language change / Johanna L. Wood

Part IV. Grammaticalization & construction grammar: Old French si, grammaticalisation, and the interconnectedness of change / Sam Wolfe

The rise of the analytic Perfect aspect in the West Iranian languages / Vit Bubenik and Leila Ziamajidi

On the grammaticalization of the -(v)ši- resultative in North Slavic / Andrii Danylenko

Atomizing linguistic change: A radical view / Dieter Stein

Part V. Corpus linguistics & morphosyntax: The rich get richer: Preferential attachment and the diachrony of light verbs in Old Swedish / John D. Sundquist

Expletives in Icelandic: A corpus study / Hannah Booth

Part VI. Languages in contact: Contact and change in Neo-Aramaic dialects / Geoffrey Khan

Copying of argument structure: A gap in borrowing scales and a new approach to model contact-induced change / Carola Trips

Contact-induced change and the phonemicization of the vowel /a/ in Quảng Nam Vietnamese / Andrea Hoa Pham

The future marker in Palestinian Arabic: Internal or external motivation for language change? / Duaa AbuAmsha

Neuters to none: A diachronic perspective on loanword gender in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian / Mary Ann Walter

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Historical linguistics 2017.

ISBN:

9789027204790

9027204799

OCLC:

1128086595