Aertsen Henk, Jeffers Robert J. (Eds.). Historical Linguistics 1989

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1993. — 557 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 106).Papers from the 9th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, New Brunswick, 14–18 August 1989The present volume contains revised versions of selected papers from the general sessions of ICHL 9. The 34 papers cover topics from the full range of contemporary historical linguistic scholarship. The papers address issues of language change in a large variety of languages and language families, both Indo-European and non-Indo-European: students of Germanic linguistics will likely find the volume to be of particular interest, as more than a dozen contributions deal with developments in Afrikaans, Dutch, English, German and Icelandic. The volume includes an index of names and languages.The Natural Science Background to the Development of Historical-Comparative Linguistics - E.F.K. Koerner
The Lexicon and Linguistic Change - Henk Aertsen
The Semantic Development of can and could from Old English to the Present - Kenneth R. Andrews
Latin System’s enérgeia vs. Greek System’s argía: A Problem of Linguistic Change Theory - Emanuele Banfi
The Coalesence of the Participle and the Gerund/Gerundive: An Integrated Change - Brigitte L.M. Bauer
Episode Boundary Markers in Old English Discourse - Laurel J. Brinton
On Proposed Universals of Grammatical Borrowing - Lyle Campbell
Patterns of Syncretism in Indo-European - Robert Coleman
A Morphonological Rule for the Past Tense Formation of Irregular English Verbs - Hubert Gburek
Contamination in Morphological Change in Algonquian Languages - Ives Goddard
The Rise of a New Conceptualization Pattern: Old English lippe, weler, tunge, and muþ with Reference to Linguistic Action - Louis Goossens
Les résultats de ubi et unde dans l’histoire du français (avec une considération particulière de l’ancien et du moyen français) - Pascale Hadermann
Aspectogenesis in South Dravidian: On the Origin of the ‘Compound Continuative’ KONTIRU - Susan C. Herring
Diachronic Syntax and Information Packaging: Remarks on Unstressed Pronouns in Old Spanish - Masataka Ishikawa
Determining the Synchronic Syntax of a Dead Language - Stephanie W. Jamison
Open Syllable Lengthening in Middle English - Keiko Kaminashi
Syntactic Changes in Late Middle English - Ans M.C. van Kemenade
Sur l’origine de l’emploi des formes toniques du pronom personnel régime avant les formes verbales non finies (infinitives ou participiales) en ancien français - Ans de Kok
Verb Serialization and Word Order: Evidence from Hittite - Silvia Luraghi
The Role of Paradigms in the Phonetic Detail of Sound Change - Martin Maiden
From Staging Strategies to Syntax: Clitic-Copying and Prepositional Direct Objects in Romanian - Maria M. Manoliu
The Inflectional Systems of Overseas Dutch - Jaap van Marle and Caroline Smits
Reconstructing the Unidentified - Marianne Mithun
Zur Geschichte der Distanzstellung im Deutschen: Die Urkunden des 13. Jahrhunderts - Elda Morlicchio
Double Modals in Early English - Stephen J. Nagle
The Role of Women in Linguistic Change - Edith H. Raidt
Early Diphthongization of Palatalized West Germanic [u:]: The Spelling uy in Middle Dutch - Pieter van Reenen and Astrid Wijnands
A Moraic Model of the Diachronic Development of Long Vowels and Falling Diphthongs in Friulian - Lori Repetti
Did “Aktionsart” Ever “Compensate” Verbal Aspect in Old and Middle French? - Lene Schøsler
Drift as an Organic Outcome of Type - Michael Shapiro
An African-American Linguistic Enclave: Tense and Aspect in Liberian Settler English - John Victor Singler
Linking Changes in Icelandic - Henry Smith
Coping with Partial Information in Historical Linguistics - Sarah G. Thomason
The Effects of the Yod on the Vocalic and Consonantal Systems: From Latin to Spanish - Uthaiwan Wong-opasi