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Subject(s)

• Historical linguistics—Congresses [Browse]
• Linguistic change [Browse]

Related name

• International Conference on Historical Linguistics [Browse]
• Fortescue, Michael D. [Browse]

Series

• Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 257. [More in this series]
• Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 257 [More in this series]

Summary note

This volume consists of 19 papers presented at the 16th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, which was held in August 2003 in Copenhagen and drew the largest number of participants and the widest array of languages that this important biannual conference has ever had. As with previous volumes, the papers selected cover a wide range of subjects besides the core areas of historical linguistics, and this time include studies on ethnolinguistics, grammaticalisation, language contact, sociolinguistics, and typology. The individual languages treated include Brazilian Portuguese, Chukchi, Korean, Danish, English, German, Greek, Japanese, Kok-Papónk, Latin, Newar, Old Norse, Romanian, Seneca, Spanish, and Swedish. The volume reflects the state of the art both empirical and theoretical - in Historical Linguistics today, and shows the discipline to be as flourishing and capable of new advances as ever.

Notes

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS 2003
• Editorial page
• Title page
• LCC data
• Table of contents
• Preface
• Typological reflections on loss of morphological case in Middle Low German and in the Mainland Scandinavian languages
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Chronology
• 3. Case marking in Middle Low German and ways of marking morphological case in NPs
• 4. The borrowing hierarchy
• 5. Typological and areal perspectives on the development of case marking
• 6. Concluding remarks
• Notes
• References
• Ethnoreconstruction in Kok-Papónk
• 2. The languages and their historical development
• 3. The fronting of *o (<
• *u) to KB e
• 4. The raising of *a to KB e
• 5. Conclusion
• Raising verbs vs. auxiliaries
• 2. The Danish at-nci-nexus constructions
• 3. Predicative vs. non-predicative verbs
• 4. Raising verbs vs. auxiliaries - a synchronic analysis
• 4.1. Raising verbs
• 4.2. Auxiliaries
• 5. Raising verbs vs. auxiliaries - a diachronic hypothesis
• 6. Conclusion
• On the origin of the final unstressed [i] in Brazilian and other varieties of Portuguese
• 1.1. Status quæstionis
• 2. Analysis of the corpus (13th to 16th centuries)
• 2.1. Forms with final etymological -i (<
• I)
• 2.2. Forms with final ``non-etymological'' -i (<
• E
• 3. Conclusions: Towards a sociolinguistic reconstruction
• Socio-historical evidence for copula variability in rural Southern America
• 2. History of the copula in English
• 3. American innovation
• 3.1. R-lessness as a reason for absence in Advance
• 3.2. Influence from AAVE
• 4. Other Southern American copula studies
• 5. The copula in Advance
• 5.1. Results of Advance, N.C.
• 5.2. Age
• 5.3. Gender
• 5.4. Class.
• 5.5. Linguistic environments - Absence only
• 6. African-American Influence
• 7. Conclusion
• Main stress left in Early Middle English
• 1. Pertinacity in grammar
• 2. Change in the English stress system
• 3. An early generative account: Halle &
• Keyser (1971)
• 4. A Parametric Account
• 4.1. Old English stress (Dresher &
• Lahiri 1991)
• 4.2. Middle English stress
• 4.3. Early Latin borrowings
• 4.4. Changes in direction of parsing and main stress
• 5. Conclusion: Conservatism amid change
• Note
• Some dialectal, sociolectal and communicative aspects of word order variation and change in Late Middle English
• 2. Researching word order competition
• 3. Dialect input into London sociolects
• 4. Findings in close-up
• 5. Word order competition in East Anglia
• 6. The London sociolects and the emerging standard
• 7. Reprofiling Geoffrey Chaucer
• 8. Variation and accommodation in John Capgrave
• 9. Geoffrey Chaucer's audiences
• 10. Conclusion
• Using universal principles of phonetic qualitative reduction in grammaticalization to explain the Old Spanish shift from ge to se
• 2. Confusion of sibilants
• 3. Analogy with reflexive se
• 4. Substitution by reflexive se
• 5. Phonological concomitants of grammaticalization
• 6. The change ge >
• se due to qualitative reduction
• 7. Textual evidence
• 8. Summary and conclusions
• Appendix: Sources of texts used in the study
• The origin of transitive auxiliary verbs in Chukotko-Kamchatkan
• 1. Copular/auxiliary polysemy in Chukchi
• 2. Copulas and auxiliaries in Itelmen
• 3. Proto-Chukotko-Kamchatkan reconstructions
• 4. The missing `have' equivalent in Itelmen
• 5. `Have' vs. `be' constructions in Chukotko-Kamchatkan
• 6. Summary
• Notes.
• Grammaticalisation and Latin
• Conclusions
• Paths of semantic extension
• 2. The causal approach
• 2.1. Antecedent and subsequent roles
• 2.2. Space and causation
• 2.3. Purpose and beneficiary
• 3. Types of cause, purpose, and beneficiary expressions in Ancient Greek
• 3.1. Purpose and beneficiary as direction
• 3.2. Purpose and beneficiary as location
• 3.3. Cause as source/origin
• 3.4. Cause as location
• 3.5. Cause, reason, and purpose
• 4. Byzantine Greek
• 5. Modern Greek
• 6. Discussion
• 7. Cause, purpose, and beneficiary in Latin
• Abbreviations
• Vanishing discourse markers
• 2. Lat. et vs sic
• 2.1. Lat. et as a discourse marker
• 2.2. Lat. sic as adverb and/or conjunction
• 3. Old French et versus si
• 3.1. French et
• 3.2. French si
• 4. Old Romanian e versus si
• 4.1. Old Romanian e
• 4.2. Si in Old Romanian
• 5. Factors favoring the loss of e
• 5.1. The competition between e and si
• 5.2. e versus iara
• 6. Conclusions
• Sources
• From ditransitive to monotransitive structure in the history of the Spanish language. Reanalysis of objects
• 1. The phenomenon
• 2. The aim
• 3. The analysis
• 3.1. Objects: The evidence
• 3.2. Verbs
• 4. Summary
• Bibliography
• a) Corpus
• Reflexive intensification in Spanish
• 2. The construction of reflexivity and intensification
• 2.1. The meaning of reflexivity and intensification
• 2.2. The clitic argument structure construction in Spanish
• 2.3. The Spanish non-clitic reflexive
• 3. The empirical method: varying token ratio
• 4. General data on the historical change
• 5. More specific data on the historical change
• 6. Interpreting the data.
• 6.1. A paradigmatic interpretation
• 6.2. A syntagmatic explanation: Reanalysis
• Modern Swedish bara
• 2. The etymological origin of bara
• 3. From adjective to adverb
• 4. From adverb to conditional subordinator
• 5. Some other relevant grams
• 6. The changes of bara: a case of grammaticalization?
• 6.1. The semantic aspects of the proposed path of change
• 6.2. The syntactic aspects of the proposed path of change
• 6.3. The mechanisms of change
• Nordic prefix loss and metrical stress theory with particular reference to *ga- and *bi-
• 1. Introduction: aim and focus
• 2. The binary weight distinction
• 3. Early runic evidence
• 4. Rhythmic-metrical deletion versus phonetic reduction
• 5. Prosodic Repair Strategies
• 5.1. Latin
• 5.2. Modern Norwegian
• 5.3. Modern Standard German
• 6. Nordic prefix loss as a Prosodic Repair Strategy
• The origin and development of lär, a modal epistemic in Swedish
• 2. Lär as a grammaticalized item in Contemporary Swedish
• 3. Previous research and proposals on the origin of lär
• 4. Comparisons between the possible origins from lära or låta
• 4.1. Phonological discussions regarding the origin of epistemic lär
• 4.2. The origin of the epistemic lär: Semantic considerations
• 5. Regarding the derivation of epistemic lär from lata/låta
• 5.1. The suggested derivation from låta/lata `seem, appear'
• 5.2. Possible development of epistemic lär from complex sentences with deontic and epistemic implication
• 6. Discussions regarding sentence structures and theta-roles
• 7. The development of lär in Modern Swedish
• Appendix: Excerpted literature.
• The development of the Spanish verb ir into an auxiliary of voice
• 1.1. Passive constructions in Spanish?
• 1.2. Ir + past participle
• 2. Diachronic analysis
• 2.1. Grammaticalisation criteria: Grammar
• 2.2. Grammaticalisation criteria: Semantics
• 3. Modern use
• 4. The diachronic development of the middle meaning
• 5. The accumulative meaning
• Appendix 1
• Appendix 2
• Appendix 3
• The development of continuous aspect
• 2. Definitions of aspect
• 3. The development of aspect
• 4. Verb types and aspect markers
• 5. Continuous aspect
• 6. Japanese
• 7. Other languages
• 7.1. Newar
• 7.2. Parji
• 7.3. Korean
• 8. Conclusion
• Index
• The series CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY.

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ISBN

• 9786612157035
• 90-272-9477-1
• 1-4237-7225-3
• 1-282-15703-5

OCLC

705531233

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