Perspectives on language structure and language change : studies in honor of Henning Andersen / edited by Lars Heltoft [and four others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heltoft, Lars

Contributor:

Heltoft, Lars, editor.

Series:

Current Issues in Linguistic Theory ; 345

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Grammaticalization.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (431 pages)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]

Summary:

This volume centers on three important theoretical concepts for the study of language change and the ways in which language structure emerges and turns into new structure: reanalysis, actualization, and indexicality. Reanalysis is a part of ongoing everyday language use, a process through which language is reproduced and changed. Actualization refers to the processes through which a reanalyzed structure spreads throughout single communities and society. Indexicality covers the way in which parts of a linguistic system can point to other parts of the system, both syntagmatically and paradigmatically. The inclusion of indexicality leads to fine-grained analysis in morphology, word order, and constructional syntax.

Contents:

Preface

Perspectives on language structure and language change: an introduction / Lars Heltoft, Ivan Igartua, Brian Joseph, Kirsten Jeppesen Kragh, and Lene Schøsler

Part I. On the theory of language change: Andersen (1973) and dichotomies of change / Brian D. Joseph and Hope C. Dawson

'As time goes by' Play it again! Induction and tradition / Ole Nedergaard Thomsen

Approaching the typology and diachrony of morphological reversals / Iván Igartua

Deconstructing markedness in sound change typology: Notes on . > f and f > . / Juliette Blevins

Part II. Indexicality: The content and expression of Danish forstå: Diachronic morphology, indexical function and critique of the morphome analysis / Peter Juul Nielsen

Word order as grammaticalised semiotic systems / Lars Heltoft

Part III. Problems of reanalysis: Anticausative and passive in Vedic: Which way reanalysis? / Hans Henrich Hock

Grammaticalization and degrammati(calizati)on in the development of the Iranian verb system / Vit Bubenik

Aspects of grammaticalization and reanalysis in the voice domain in the transition from Latin to early Italo-Romance / Michela Cennamo

From preverbal to postverbal in the early history of Japanese / Bjarke Frellesvig

Reanalysis in the Russian past tense: The gerundial perfect / Jan Ivar Bjoernflaten

From a single lexical unit to multiple grammatical paradigms / Kirsten Jeppesen Kragh and Lene Schøsler

Morphosyntactic reanalysis in Australian languages: Three studies / Harold Koch

Definiteness in Germanic and Balto-Slavic: Historical and comparative perspectives / John Ole Askedal

Part IV. Actualization: Diatopy and frequency as indicators of spread: Accentuation in Bulgarian dialects / Ronelle Alexander

Suppletion or illusion? The diachrony of suppletive derivation / Johanna Nichols

Part V. Language change and diachronic typology in Balto-Slavic: A complicated relationship: Balto-Slavic accentual mobility as a non-trivial shared innovation / Thomas Olander

Name-calling: The Russian 'new Vocative' and its status / Laura A. Janda

Changes of tense and modality in Late Medieval Slovene: Transference, extension or both? / Jadranka Gvozdanovic.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027262639

9027262632