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Historical Linguistics 1991 : Papers from the 10th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam, August 12-16, 1991.
This volume contains 22 of the 95 papers presented during ICHL 10. The articles included here clearly reflect the on-going interest in the general mechanisms of language change, the close relationship between present-day historical linguistics and linguistic theory, and the renewed interest in langu...
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1993.
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- HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS 1991; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; General programme of the conference; The tendency towards right branching in the development and acquisition of Latin and French; Linguistics and its positivist handicap; Questionwords in 18th-century and 20th-century Sranan; The explanation of syntactic change: a historical perspective; Traffic between the pragmatic and structural levels; Parameter resetting; Old French and constraints on consonant epenthesis; The definite article: early stages of development.
- Language change: complex in its sources and directions, yet simple in systematicitySuppressionof a word-order pattern in Westgermanic; Modularity in language change; Blood, tears, and murder: the evidence for Proto-Uto-Aztecan syllable-final consonants; On leapfrogging in historical phonology; Greenberg'sAmerican Indian classification: a report on the controversy; The grammaticalization of Spanish haber plus participle; Latinto Romance (again!): change or genesis?; Linguistic variants and language change: deictic variants in some German and Dutch dialects vis-à-vis Afrikaans.
- 'Typological conservatism' and framing constructions in German morphosyntaxOn the evidence for bimoric vowels in Early English; Longtermevolution of the syntax of discourse and the Swahili person markers; Jewish historical linguistics: 1981-1991-2001; Gerunds and their objects in the Modern English period; Index of names; Index of languages; Index of subject matter.