Salmons Joseph C., Dubenion-Smith Shannon (Eds.). Historical Linguistics 2005

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2007. — 425 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 284).This volume contains 22 revised papers originally presented at the 17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, held August 2005 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. The papers cover a broad range of languages, including well-studied languages of Europe but also Aramaic, Zoque and Uto-Aztecan, Japanese and Korean, Afrikaans, and the Pilbara languages of Australia. The theoretical approaches taken are equally diverse, often bringing together aspects of ‘formal’ and ‘functional’ theories in a single contribution. Many of the chapters provide fresh data, including several drawing on data from electronic corpora. Topics range from traditional comparative reconstruction to prosodic change and the role of processing in syntactic change.Grammaticalization
Lexicalization and grammaticalization all over again - Laurel J. Brinton and Elizabeth Closs Traugott
Grammaticalization as reduction: Focus constructions in Chiapas Zoque - Jan Terje Faarlund
Metaphor and teleology do not drive grammaticalization - Matthew L. JugeSyntax and Semantics
Processing factors in syntactic variation and change: Clitics in Medieval and Renaissance Spanish - Miriam Bouzouita
Dynamic Syntax and dialogue modelling: Preliminaries for a dialogue-driven account of syntactic change - Ruth M. Kempson and Ronnie Cann
An economy approach to the triggering of the Russian instrumental predicate case - Nerea Madariaga
Change and variation in ga/no conversion in Tokyo Japanese - Satoshi Nambu and Kenjirô Matsuda
Perfect change: Synchrony meets diachrony - Marie-Eve Ritz
Variable use of negation in Middle Low German - John D. Sundquist
Is there a DP in Old English? - Johanna L. WoodMorphology
Some semantic and pragmatic aspects of case-loss in Old French - Richard Ashdowne and John Charles Smith
The final stages of deflection: The case of Afrikaans het "have" - C. Jac Conradie
Demonstrative paradigm splitting in the Pilbara languages of Western Australia - Alan Dench
Infinitival forms in Aramaic - Steven E. Fassberg
The role of productivity in word-formation change - Carmen SchererPhonetics and Phonology
Structured imbalances in the emergence of the Korean vowel system - Sang-Cheol Ahn and Gregory Iverson
Final features and proto-Uto-Aztecan: A contribution using morphological reconstruction - Karen Dakin
Facts, theory and dogmas in historical linguistics: Vowel quantity from Latin to Romance - Michele Loporcaro
On the irregularity of Open Syllable Lengthening in German - B. Richard Page
The resilience of prosodic templates in the history of West Germanic - Laura Catharine SmithVariation
Urban interactions and written standards in Early Modern German - Bruce H. Spencer
The Hollandish roots of Pella Dutch in Iowa - Pieter van Reenen