Fisiak Jacek (Ed.). Papers from the VIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Poznań, 22-26 August 1983

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1985. — 647 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 34).This volume presents a selection of papers from the 6th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL), which was held in 1983, in Poznań, Poland.Divergence and convergence in linguistic evolution - Henrik Birnbaum
Areal linguistics and its implications for historical linguistics - Lyle Campbell
Paradigm economy in Latin nouns - Andrew D. Carstairs-McCarthy
Ablaut: a phoenix in the history of Afrikaans - C. Jac Conradie
An analysis and synthesis in sound change - Andrei Danchev
On the diachrony of subtractive poerations: evidence for semiotically based models of natural phonology and natural morphology from northern anatolien greek dialects - Wolfgang U. Dressler and Veneeta Acson
Did old English have a middle voice? - Thomas H.K. Fraser
The vowel /a:/ in English - Hubert Gburek
Framing the linguistic actions scene in Old and Present-day English: CWEþAN, SECGAN, SP(R)ECAN and Present-day English SPEAK, TALK, SAY and TELL compared - Louis Goossens
Lexical restructuring: rule loss versus rule intersection; evidence from Italian - Rita de Grandis
Theories of sound change fail if they try predict too much - Jadranka Gvozdanović
Chance and necessity in diachronic syntax — word order typologies and the position of modern Persian relative clauses - Hubert Haider
Umlaut as a harmony process - Camiel S.J.N. Hamans
Divergent patterns of word prder in contemporary French - Martin B. Harris
Articulatory modes and typological universals: the puzzle of Bantu ejectives ans aspirates - Robert K. Herbert
Velar segments in Old English and Old Irish - Raymond Hickey
On the semasiologization of phonological rules: the semiotic evolution of Finnish consonant gradation - Eugene Holman
Another explanation for the development of s before l in Norwegian - Ernst Håkon Jahr
Wilhelm Scherer’s Zur geschichte der deutschen Sprache: a milestone in 19th-century linguistics - Kurt R. Jankowsky
Proto-Indo-European consonantism: methodological and further typological concerns - Brian D. Joseph
The place of Saussure’s Memoire in the development of historical linguistics - E.F.K. Koerner
Indo-European numerals and the sexagesimal system - Witold Mańczak
Absolute versus relative comparison: typology and development - Thomas Markey
Diachronic morphologization: the circumstances surrounding the birth, growth and decline of noun incorporation - Marianne Mithun
For a diachrony-in-synchrony analysis - Ruta Nagucka
On the possible clusters of mb, nd, and ŋg in Proto-Japanese - Fred C.C. Peng
Are there dysfunctional changes? - Anna Giacalone Ramat
The Indo-European origin of the Balti Slavic — ē — and — a- preterite - Jens Elmegård Rasmussen
Variability in word formation patterns and productivity in the American South - Edgar W. Schneider
Rule ordering and the dynamics of diatopic language variation - Johan Taeldeman
Le développement d’un auxiliaire modal en yiddish: lozn ‘laiser’ - Moshe Taube
Confrontation and association - Elizabeth Closs Traugott
The bifurcation theory of the Germanic and German consonant shifts: synopsis and some further thoughts - Theo Vennemann
Prosodic structures and the development of French schwa - S. Paul Verluyten
On the origins and developments of American English - Wolfgang Viereck
Quelques problèmes des recherche étymologiques sur les emprunts lexicaux - Bogdan Walczak
Morphologische Natürlichkeit und morphologischer Wandel. Zur vorhersagbarkeit von sprachveranderüngen - Wolfgang Ullrich Wurzel