Historical Linguistics 1995 : selected papers from the 12th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Manchester, August 1995. Volume 2, Germanic linguistics /
The Twelfth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, which is the major forum for the presentation of work in progress in the field of diachronic linguistics, took place at the University of Manchester in August 1995. The quality and breadth of the abstracts submitted for the general prog...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1998.
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Colección: | Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ;
v. 162. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS 1995; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Introduction; A corpus study of would + have + past-participle; From modal auxiliary to lexical verb The curious case of Pennsylvania German wotte; A subject-verb agreement hierarchy Evidence from analogical change in modern English dialects; Language change as reranking of constraints; Loss of prototypical meanings in the history of English semantics or semantic redeployment; How a man changed a parameter value The loss of SOV in Estonian subclauses
- Some constraints on the borrowability of syntactic features (and why none of them work)On the (non)loss of polarity sensitivityDutch ooit; The development of secondary stress in Old English; Morphological restructuring The case of Old English and Middle English verbs; Backdating the English Constraint Grammar Parser for the analysis of English historical texts; Vowel variation in Proto-Germanie ai in 16th and 17th-century Holland; Language prescriptionA success in failure's clothing?; Reconstructing the social dimension of diachronic language change
- Grammaticalization versus reanalysisThe case ofpossessiveconstructions in GermanicWord frequency and lexical diffusion in English stress shifts; Post-verbal complements in Old English; Semantic stability in derivationally related words; Language change in progressMorphological erosion in present-day ""South African Dutch"" and 18th century ""Cape Dutch""; Phonological simplification vs. stylistic differentiation in the history of German word stress; What is metonymy?; On the development of marked negation systemsThe Dutch situation in the seventeenth century
- On the development of incorporating structuresin GermanIndexof subjects; Index of names