Morphology and language history : in honour of Harold Koch / edited by Claire Bowern, Bethwyn Evans, Luisa Miceli.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bowern, Claire, 1977-

Evans, Bethwyn.

Koch, Harold.

Miceli, Luisa.

Series:

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; Series IV, v. 298.

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 298

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Morphology.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Historical linguistics.

Physical Description:

ix, 364 p. : ill., maps.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume aims to make a contribution to codifying the methods and practices linguists use to recover language history, focussing predominantly on historical morphology. The volume includes studies on a wide range of languages: not only Indo-European, but also Austronesian, Sinitic, Mon-Khmer, Basque, one Papuan language family, as well as a number of Australian families. Few collections are as cross-linguistic as this, reflecting the new challenges which have emerged from the study of languages outside those best known from historical linguistics. The contributors illustrate shared methodological and theoretical issues concerning genetic relatedness (that is, the use of morphological evidence for classification and subgrouping), reconstruction and processes of change with a diverse range of data. The volume is in honour of Harold Koch, who has long combined innovative research on understudied languages with methodological rigour and codification of practices within the discipline.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

Contributors' addresses

Introduction

Part I. Genetic relatedness

1. Western Torres Strait language classification and development

2. The classification of Pinikura, Western Australia

3. Bound pronominals in the West Papuan languages

4. Alawa and its neighbours: Enigma variations 1 and 2

5. Reconstructing pre-Warumungu pronominals

Part II. Reconstruction

6. Splitting vs. lumping in morphological analysis: Evidence from Greek

7. Pronominal accretions in Pama-Nyungan

8. Associated eating and movement: further examination of Yuwaalaraay Gamilaraay verb suffixes

9. The origin of conjugation markers in Australian languages

10. Some remarks on negatives in Southeastern Australia

11. *gṷes-, *(z)g ṷes-, *(s)g ṷesh2-? The PIE root for 'extinguish/go out'

12. The language of Central Australian Aboriginal songs

13. The origin of noun classes in Worrorran languages

14. Hittite duwān (parā)

15. Morphological reconstruction and Australian languages

16. Warlpiri verb roots in comparative perspective

17. Oujiang Wu tones and acoustic reconstruction

18. Issues in the morphological reconstruction of Proto-Mon-Khmer

Part III. Processes of change

19. Case selection Old and New Basque

20. Third person plural as a morphological zero: Object marking in Marovo

21. The morphological development of the perfect in Jersey Norman French

22. Grand-daddy morphs: The importance of suffixes in reconstructing Pama-Nyungan kinship

23. Morphology of the eggs, and what it can tell us about Romanian nominal inflection

24. The refunctionalisation of first person plural inflection in Tiwi

25. A chain vowel raising in the early history of Chinese

Index of languages

Index of subjects

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612105487

9781282105485

1282105485

9789027290960

9027290962