Maher J. Peter, Bomhard Allan R., Koerner E.F.K. (Eds.). Papers from the Third International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Hamburg, August 22-26 1977

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1982. — 451 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 13).The papers in this volume are a selection from those presented at the 3rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL), held in 1977 at the University of Hamburg. These selected papers deal with a wide variety of issues, some from a more general-theoretical perspective, some deriving new theoretical insights from language data ranging from Ojibwa to Old-Saxon.Synchronic, diachronic, and panchronic linguistics - William M. Christie
The interplay between diachronic linguistics and dialectology: Some refinements of Trudgill’s formula - Marinel Gerritsen and Frank Jansen
Development of tones in languages with distinctive tonal accents - Jadranka Gvozdanović
Diachrony in synchrony - Göran Hammarström
Determinism in linguistics: neogrammarian and transformationalist - John Hewson
Historical development of tone patterns - Jean-Marie Hombert and John J. Ohala
Short-term and long-term teleology in linguistic change - Esa Itkonen
Sound change and perceptual compensation - Tore Janson
The neogrammarian doctrine: breakthrough or extension of the Schleicherian paradigm - E.F.K. Koerner
Observations on the sources, transmission, and meaning of ‘Indo-european’ and related terms in the development of linguistics - E.F.K. Koerner
Semantic investiture of underspecified units in syntax - Stephan Langhoff
The phonetic nature of the Neo-Štokavian accent shifts in Serbo-croatian - Ilse Lehiste and Pavle Ivić
Homo : Humus and the semitic counterparts: The oldest culturally significant Etymology? - Saul Levin
La désinence féminine -esse - Leena Löfstedt
Between monogenesis and polygenesis - Yakov Malkiel
On comparative syntax - Marianne Mithun and Lyle Campbell
A syntactic correlate of style switching in the Canterbury tales - Lynn Ness and Caroline Duncan-Rose
Evidence of auslautsverhärtung in old saxon - Karl Odwarka
The application of the comparative method to the philippine languages - Consuelo J. Paz
Historical analogy and the peircean categories - Irmengard Rauch
The PIE word order controversy and word order in lithuanian - Janine K. Reklaitis
On the problem of merger - Kristian Ringgaard
The word-and-paradigm model and linguistic change: the verbal system of ojibwa - H. Christoph Wolfart