Andersen Henning (Ed.). Historical Linguistics 1993

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1995. — 471 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 124).Selected papers from the 11th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Los Angeles, 16–20 August 1993This volume contains a selection of 34 of the 96 papers presented at ICHL 1993, including several of the contributions to the workshop on Parameters and Typology organized jointly by Henning Andersen and David W. Lightfoot. Major topics represented are grammaticalization and functional renewal (illustrated with changes in romance, French, Pennsylvania German, Afrikaans, English, Finnish), changes in syntax (Indo-European, Indo-Aryan, Ancient Greek, Romanian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Japanese, Dutch, English) and discourse structure (Old Russian, Old French), morphology (German, Turkic), phonology (Romance, Italian, French, German, Old English, English). Several papers include sociolinguistic, areal, and typological perspectives on change; a few are specifically concerned with reconstruction or with the principles of reconstruction, and several demonstrate the continued importance of the philological methods in the study of texts.Regrammaticalization and Regrammaticalization of the inchoative suffix - Andrew Allen
Light shed on problems of Turkic conjugation: the northeast Turkic progressive present in — Ipča(t) and the ‘mixed’ conjugation - Gregory D.S. Anderson
On the history of relative clauses in French and some of its dialects - Julie Auger
Functional renewal - Laurel J. Brinton
Passives and ergatives in middle Indo-Aryan - Vit Bubenik
Evidence of grammaticalization in Pennsylvania German - Kate Burridge
Old froms for new concepts: the recategorization of possessive duplications in Mexican Spanish - Concepción Company
On subjectification in modal adverbs - C. Jac Conradie
Gender, class, and prestige in the spread of an allophonic rule - Thomas D. Cravens and Luciano Giannelli
Reconstruction of the Proto-Romance syllable - Naomi Cull
The development of word-final /b/ in English - Andrei Danchev
Areal linguistics in prehistory: evidence from Indo-European aspect - Bridget Drinka
The later stages in the development of the definite article: evidence from French - Richard Epstein
Parameters underlying the organization of medieval Russian texts - Jadranka Gvozdanović
What the choice of the overt nominalizer NO did to Mmodern Japanese syntax and semantics - Kaoru Horie
On the categorical evolution: a case study in Spanish possessives - Masataka Ishikawa
Regression and creation in the double accusative in Ancient Greek - Bernard Jacquinod
Mophological reanalysis and typology: the case of the Greman r- plural and why English did not develop it - Dieter Kastovsky
On the grammaticization of the definite article SE in spoken Finnish - Ritva Laury
Identifying an Old French text with the help of dialect analysis - Leena Löfstedt
Prototypically and agenthood in Indo-European - Silvia Luraghi
Genetic congruence versus areal convergence: the misfortune of LAtin AD in Romanian - Maria M. Manoliu
On the fate of adjectival declension in Overseas Dutch (with some notes on the history of Dutch) - Jaap van Marle
Clitic placement from Old to Modern European Portuguese - Ana Maria Martins
A diachronic view of prepositional verbs of emotion in Spanish - Chantal Melis
Phonologically based mmorphological change: high-vowel deletion and pardigmatic implications in Old English - Robert W. Murray
Diachronic stable structural features - Johanna Nichols
The diachronic distibution of bare and prepositional infinitives in English - Jairo Nunes
Object shift in Old Spanish: a minimalist theory approach - Claudia Parodi
Lexical diffusion as a guide to scribal intent: a comparison of ME “eo” and “e” spellings in the PETERBOROUGH CHRONICLE and the ORMULUM - Betty S. Phillips
Verb-seconding in Old English - Susan Pintzuk
the thematic structure of the main clause in OLd French, OR versus SI - Pieter van Reenen and Lene Schøsler
On different ways of optimizing the sound shape of words - Elke Ronneberger-Sibold
Exaptation and grammaticalization - Nigel Vincent