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Papers from the 4th International Conference on Historical Linguistics / edited by Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Rebecca Labrum & Susan Shepherd.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Author/Creator:
- International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Corporate Author.
- Conference Name:
- International Conference on Historical Linguistics (4th : 1979 : Stanford University)
- International Conference on Historical Linguistics
- Series:
- Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; Series IV, v. 14.
- Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 14
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historical linguistics--Congresses.
- Historical linguistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (445 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : Benjamins Pub. Co., 1980.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The studies in this volume are revised versions of a selection from the papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, held at Stanford University on 26–30 March 1979. Papers at this conference, and in this volume, treat aspects of all current topics in historical linguistics, including topics that are only recently considered relevant, such as acquisition, structure, and language use.
- Contents:
- Prelim pages
- Acknowledgments
- Table of contents
- Preface
- Typology as instigator and regulator of linguistic change
- Explaining universals and their exceptions
- Continuity of transmission and genetic relationship
- Chance cognition
- Redundancy as explanation in historical linguistics
- The structure of meaning in semiotic perspective
- Pragmatic and sociolinguitsic bias in semantic change
- The marking of definiteness
- A functional approach to syntactic reconstruction
- Implications of pre-complementizers with hittite š ak-/šek- ‘know’
- On word order in irish
- Marked and unmarked word order in old norse
- An analysis of the rise of SOV patterns in dutch
- Developments in the dutch left-dislocation structures and the verb-second constraint
- from passive too active in kurdish via the ergative construction
- On the loss of a rule of syntax
- The development of accusative-infinitive constructions
- Syntactic diffusion
- infinitival complements to verbs of motion in ontarian and quebec french
- Verb compounds in greek
- The role of perception in restructuring and relexicalization
- the evolution of clitics
- Circumfixes and typological change
- On the decline of declensional systems
- Conditions on object marking
- Reduction of case markers in Lithuanian
- Analogy and inflectional affix replacement
- Russian conjugation
- Sound change and child language
- The fluctuating intensity of a ‘sound law’
- Linguistic reasons for phonetic archaisms in romance
- Early intervocalic voicing in tuscan
- The transition problem
- Lexical alternation and the history of english
- Pragmatic features and phonological change
- Tonal accents in basque and greek
- Acquisition and development of “gastarbeiterdeutsch” by migrant workers and their children in germany
- Pidginization and foreigner talk
- Concluding statement
- Index of names
- Index of languages
- Index of subject matter
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographies and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-31439-8
- 9786613314390
- 90-272-8118-1
- OCLC:
- 758008169
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