Historical linguistics 2015 : selected papers from the 22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Naples, 27-31 July 2015 / edited by Michela Cennamo, Claudia Fabrizio ; with assistance Renato Parlato.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Cennamo, Michela, editor.

Fabrizio, Claudia, editor.

Parlato, Renato, contributor.

Conference Name:

International Conference on Historical Linguistics (22nd : 2015 : Naples, Italy)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historical linguistics--Congresses.

Historical linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (649 pages)

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

The collection of articles presented in this volume addresses a number of general theoretical, methodological and empirical issues in the field of Historical Linguistics, in different levels of analysis and on different themes: (i) phonology, (ii) morphology, (iii) morphosyntax, (iv) syntax, (v) diachronic typology, (vi) semantics and pragmatics, and (vii) language contact, variation and diffusion. The topics discussed, often in a comparative perspective, feature a variety of languages and language families and cover a wide range of research areas. Novel analyses and often new diachronic data -- also from less known and under-investigated languages -- are provided to the debate on the principles, mechanisms, paths and models of language change, as well as the relationship between synchronic variation and diachrony. The volume is of interest to scholars of different persuasions working on all aspects of language change.

Contents:

Introduction / Michela Cennamo and Claudia Fabrizio

Part I. Phonology: 1. Old Irish consonant quality re-examined / Hans Henrich Hock

2. The use of the past to explain the past: Roman grammarians and the collapse of quantity / Marco Mancini

3. Pertinacity in loanwords: Same underlying systems, different outputs / Aditi Lahiri and Holly Kennard

Part II. Morphology: 4. Ablaut in Armenian nasal declension / Giancarlo Schirru

5. Gender and declension mismatches in West Nordic / Ivar Berg

6. The development of gender and countability effects in German ung- and English ing-nominals / Martina Werner and Gianina Iordachioaia

7. Some new evidence on the rise of Italian -ata nouns / Claudia Fabrizio

8. Diachrony and morphological equilibrium: The case of the southern New Indo-Aryan verb / Paolo Milizia

9. Anti-relevant, contra-iconic but system-adequate: On unexpected inflectional changes / Livio Gaeta

Part III. Morphosyntax: 10. Impersonal passives and the suffix -r in the Indo-European languages / Francesco Rovai

11. The Old English verbal prefixes for- and ge-: Their effects on the transitivity of morphological causative pairs / Esaúl Ruiz Narbona

Part IV. Syntax: 12. Enclitic -(m)a 'but' / -(y)a 'and' in Hittite: Losing extraordinary syntactic behavior / Andrei V. Sideltsev

13. State representation and dynamic processes in Homeric Greek: The case of the aorist in -hn / Domenica Romagno

14. The actualization of language change: Perfect and middle in Indo-European languages / Romano Lazzeroni

15. Early Indo-European dialects and innovations of aspect systems / Jadranka Gvozdanovic

16. Perfecting the notion of Sprachbund: Perfects and resultatives in the 'Stratified Convergence Zones' of Europe / Bridget Drinka

17. Parameters in the development of Romance perfective auxiliary selection / Adam Ledgeway

18. Adverbs and the left periphery of non-finite clauses in Old Spanish / Teresa María Rodríguez Ramalle and Cristina Matute

Part V. Diachronic typology: 19. The sources of antipassive constructions: A cross-linguistic survey / Andrea Sansò

20. A diachronic account of converbal constructions in Old Rajasthani / Krzysztof Stronski, Joanna Tokaj and Saartje Verbeke

Part VI. Semantics and pragmatics: 21. The locative alternation with spray/load verbs in Old English / Katarzyna Sówka-Pietraszewska

22. Penetration of French-origin lexis in Middle English occupational domains / Richard Ingham, Louise Sylvester and Imogen Marcus

23. Meaning change from superlatives to definite descriptions: A semantic approach / Jun Chen and Dawei Jin

24. Towards diachronic word classes universals / Matthias Gerner

25. Grammaticalizing the face (as well as the hands) in a first generation sign language: The case of Zinacantec Family Homesign / John B. Haviland

Part VII. Language contact, variation and diffusion: 26. Linguistic divergence under contact / Nicholas Evans

27. Roots and branches of variation across dialects of English / Sali A. Tagliamonte

28. Waves in computer simulations of linguistic diffusion / Luzius Thöny.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-272-6245-4