Traugott Elizabeth Closs, Labrum Rebecca, Shepherd Susan C. (Eds.). Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Stanford, March 26-30 1979

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1980. — 448 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 14).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.Typology as instigator and regulator of linguistic change - Eugene Holman
Explaining universals and their exceptions - Lyle Campbell
Continuity of transmission and genetic relationship - Sarah G. Thomason
Chance cognition: A probabilistic model and decision procedure for historical inference - John S. Justeson and Laurence D. Stephens
Redundancy as explanation in historical linguistics - William M. Christie
The structure of meaning in semiotic perspective - Michael Shapiro
Pragmatic and sociolinguitsic bias in semantic change - Flora Klein-Andreu
The marking of definiteness: A diachronic perspective - Martin B. Harris
A functional approach to syntactic reconstruction - Marianne Mithun
Implications of pre-complementizers with hittite šak-/šek- ‘know’ - Carol F. Justus
On word order in irish - Anders Ahlqvist
Marked and unmarked word order in old norse - Marit Christoffersen
An analysis of the rise of SOV patterns in dutch - Marinel Gerritsen
Developments in the dutch left-dislocation structures and the verb-second constraint - Frank Jansen
from passive too active in kurdish via the ergative construction - Theodora Bynon
On the loss of a rule of syntax - Alice C. Harris
The development of accusative-infinitive constructions - W.J. Pepicello
Syntactic diffusion - Mario Saltarelli
infinitival complements to verbs of motion in ontarian and quebec french - Michael Canale, Raymond Mougeon and Édouard Beniak
Verb compounds in greek: the elimination of a transformational rule - Geoffrey C. Horrocks
The role of perception in restructuring and relexicalization: two case histories - Robert K. Herbert
The evolution of clitics - Robert J. Jeffers and Arnold M. Zwicky
Circumfixes and typological change - Joseph H. Greenberg
On the decline of declensional systems: the overall loss of OE nominal case inflections and the ME reanalysis of — es as his - Richard D. Janda
Conditions on object marking: stages in the history of the east slavic Genitive-accusative - Emily Klenin
Reduction of case markers in Lithuanian: data for discussion - Janine K. Reklaitis
Analogy and inflectional affix replacement - Max W. Wheeler
Russian conjugation: Acquisition and evolutive change - Henning Andersen
Sound change and child language - Marilyn Vihman
The fluctuating intensity of a ‘sound law’ - Yakov Malkiel
Linguistic reasons for phonetic archaisms in romance - Roger Wright
Early intervocalic voicing in tuscan - Dieter Wanner and Thomas D. Cravens
The transition problem: lexical diffusion vs. variable rules - John Reighard
Lexical alternation and the history of english: evidence from an urban vernacular - James Milroy
Pragmatic features and phonological change - Martha Laferriere
Tonal accents in basque and greek - Alice Wyland Grundt
Acquisition and development of “gastarbeiterdeutsch” by migrant workers and their children in germany - Carol W. Pfaff
Pidginization and foreigner talk: chinese pidgin russian - Johanna Nichols
Concluding statement - Paul Kiparsky