Schmid Monika S., Austin Jennifer R., Stein Dieter (Eds.). Historical Linguistics 1997

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1998. — 420 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 164).Selected papers from the 13th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Düsseldorf, 10–17 August 1997This volume presents a selection from the papers given at the 13th International Conference on Historical Linguistics. It offers a window on the current state of the art in historical linguistics: the papers cover a wide range of different languages, different language families, and different approaches to the study of linguistic change, ranging from optimality theory, theories of grammaticalization and the invisible hand, treatments of language contact and creolization to the linguistic consequences of political correctness. Among the languages under discussion are Akkadian, Catalan, Dutch, Finnish, Japanese, Sranan, Western Malayo-Polynesian, Yiddish, and a variety of Romance and Native American languages.Sound Laws: Reactions Present and Past - Arleta Adamska-Sałaciak
Passives in Western Malayo-Polynesian: An Asian Perspective - Barry J. Blake
What can This Be? A west African Contribution to Sranan - Adrienne Bruyn
Grammmatical and Lexical Aspect in Akkadian and Proto-Semitic - Vit Bubenik
Euphemism with Attitude: Politically Charged Language Change - Kate Burridge
The Loss of the Voice Dimension Between Late Latin and Early Romance - Michela Cennamo
How a Historical Linguist and a Native Speaker Understand a Complex Morphology - Wallace Chafe
The Evolution of Grammar: Evidence from Indo-European Perfects - Bridget Drinka
Yiddish and Hebrew: Borrowing Through Oral language Contact - Elaine Gold
Degenerate Feet in Tacanan Languages: Unmarkedness in OT - Haike Jacobs
The Evolution of Ó in Open Position: Parallel Developments in French and Dutch Dialects - Thera de Jong
The Structure of ra-Deletion in Japanese - Fusa Katada
Can Grammaticalization be Explained Invisible Handedly? - Jurgen Klausenburger
Toward a ‘Standard Yiddish’ Pronounciation: An Instrumentally Aided Phonetic Analysis - Anke Kleine
The Evolution of Adverbial Subordinators in Europe - Bernd Kortmann
A corpus-Based Model for the Description of Language Change and Variation in Nominal Classification exemplified by Dutch Seventeenth Century Varieties - Arjan van Leuvensteijn
Towards an Explanation of some Morphological Changes which ‘Should Never Have Happened’ - Martin Maiden
On the Conservatism of Embedded Clauses - Kenjirô Matsuda
Velars and Palatals in Old English Alliteration - Donka Minkova
The Sequencing of Grammaticization Effects: A Twist from North America - Marianne Mithun
What Research on Creole Genesis Can Contribute to Historical Linguistics - Salikoko S. Mufwene
The Borrowing of Meaning as a Cause of Internal Syntactic Change - Ellen F. Prince
Grammaticalization of Complex Verbal Constructions in Finnish - Taru Salminen
Two Models for the Study of Language Contact: A Psycho-Linguistic perspective Versus a Socio-Cultural Perspective - Caroline Smits
A Motivated Account of the Semantic Evolution of Watch and its Catalan Equivalents - Isabel Verdaguer and Anna Poch