Van Kemenade Ans, de Haas Nynke (Eds.). Historical Linguistics 2009

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012. — 427 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 320).Selected papers from the 19th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Nijmegen, 10-14 August 2009The International Conference on Historical Linguistics has always been a forum that reflects the general state of the art in the field, and the 2009 edition, held in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, fully allows the conclusion that the field has been thriving over the years. The studies presented in this volume are an expression of ongoing theoretical discussions as well as new analytical approaches to the study of issues concerning language change. Taken together, they reflect some of the current challenges in the field, as well as the opportunities offered by judicious use of theoretical models and careful corpus-based work.General and Specific Issues of Language Change
Competing reinforcements: When languages opt out of Jespersen’s Cycle - Theresa Biberauer
On the reconstruction of experiential constructions in (Late) Proto-Indo-European - Vit Bubenik
Criteria for differentiating inherent and contact-induced changes in language reconstruction - Jadranka Gvozdanović
Misparsing and syntactic reanalysis - John Whitman
How different is prototype change? - Margaret E. Winters and Geoffrey S. Nathan
The syntactic reconstruction of alignment and word order: The case of Old Japanese - Yuko YanagidaLinguistic Variation and Change in Germanic
The Dutch-Afrikaans participial prefix ge-: A case of degrammaticalization? - C. Jac Conradie
Diachronic changes in long-distance dependencies: The case of Dutch - Jack Hoeksema and Ankelien Schippers
Changes in the use of the Frisian quantifiers ea/oait “ever” between 1250 and 1800 - Eric Hoekstra, Bouke Slofstra and Arjen P. Versloot
On the development of the perfect (participle) - Ida Larsson
OV and V-to-I in the history of Swedish - Erik Magnusson Petzell
Ethnicity as an independent factor of language variation across space: Trends in morphosyntactic patterns in spoken Afrikaans - Gerald Stell
The sociolinguistics of spelling: A corpus-based case study of orthographical variation in nineteenth-century Dutch in Flanders - Rik Vosters, Gijsbert Rutten and Wim VandenbusscheLinguistic Variation and Change in Greek
Dative loss and its replacement in the history of Greek - Adam Cooper and Effi Georgala
Word order variation in New Testament Greek wh-questions - Allison KirkLinguistic Change in Romance
The morphological evolution of infinitive, future and conditional forms in Occitan - Louise Esher
The evolution of the encoding of direction in the history of French: A quantitative approach to argument structure change - Heather Burnett and Mireille Tremblay
Velle-type prohibitions in Latin: The rise and fall of a morphosyntactic conspiracy - Edward Cormany
The use and development of habere + infinitive in Latin: An LFG approach - Mari Johanne Hertzenberg