Haug Dag T.T. (Ed.). Historical Linguistics 2013

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015. — 340 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 334).Selected papers from the 21st International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oslo, 5-9 August 2013The International Conference on Historical Linguistics is the main conference for specialists in language change, and the 2013 conference in Oslo drew more than 300 participants, with 182 papers presented in the general session. The 16 papers selected for inclusion in this volume from the general session of ICHL 2013 not only provide a clear picture of the state of the art in various subfields of historical linguistics but also present recent insights in diachronic phonology, typology, morphology and morphosyntax. The languages and families covered include English, German, Scandinavian, French, Occitan, Portuguese, Sardinian, Spanish, Ancient Greek, Old Japanese and Austronesian. The volume will be useful to any linguist with an interest in diachronic matters as well as general linguistic theory.Phonology
A Phonological motivation behind the diatonic stress shift in Modern English - Ryuichi Hotta
Vowel reduction in verbs in King Alfred’s Pastoral Care - Sverre Stausland Johnsen
The development of early Middle English ō: Spelling evidence - Gjertrud Flermoen Stenbrenden
The diachronic development of stød and tonal accent in North Germanic - Allison Wetterlin and Aditi Lahiri
The evolution of the (alveolo)palatal lateral consonant in Spanish and Portuguese - Andre ZampauloDiachronic Typology
Evaluating prehistoric and early historic linguistic contacts - Jadranka Gvozdanović
Patterns in the diffusion of nomenclature systems: Australian subsections in comparison to European days of the week - Harold KochMorphology
Morphological evidence for the paradigmatic status of infinitives in French and Occitan - Xavier Bach and Louise Esher
Constructional change at the interface of cognition, culture, and language use: A diachronic corpus study of German nominalization patterns - Stefan HartmannMorphosyntax
Stages in deflexion and the Norwegian dative - Ivar Berg
Differential Object Marking in Old Japanese: A corpus-based study - Bjarke Frellesvig, Stephen W. Horn and Yuko Yanagida
The grammaticalization of progressive constructions with a focus on the English progressive - Kristin Killie
Hate and anger, love and desire: The construal of emotions in Homeric Greek - Silvia Luraghi and Eleonora Sausa
The argument indexing of early Austronesian verbs: A reconstructional myth? - Malcolm D. Ross
The syntax of mood constructions in Old Japanese: A corpus-based study - Kerri L. Russell and Peter Sells
Medieval Sardinian: New evidence for syntactic change from Latin to Romance - Sam Wolfe