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Historical Linguistics 2011 : selected papers from the 20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Osaka, 25-30 July 2011 /
Starting from Sapir's (1921) concept of linguistic "drift", this chapter explores long-term morphosyntactic change in Ancient Egyptian, with particular attention to the typological shift from agglutinative-synthetic to largely analytic morphological structure. The momentum for the con...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
2013.
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| Colección: | Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ;
v. 326. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS 2011; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; I. Grammaticalization; The role of historical research in building a model of Sign Language typology, variation, and change; 1. Introduction; 2. Historical research; 3. Implications for Sign Language typology and variation; 4. Summary; References; On the origin of Niger-Congo nominal classification; 1. Introduction; 2. The inherited noun class system of Niger-Congo; 3. Alternative systems of nominal classification in Niger-Congo; 4. Towards a model of Niger-Congo noun class genesis; 5. Conclusion.
- AbbreviationsReferences; A closer look at subjectification in the grammaticalization of English modals: From the main verb mo; 1. Introduction; 2. Data; 3. Subjectification in the grammaticalization of must; 4. Conclusion; Sources for examples; References; Subjectivity encoding in Taiwanese Southern Min; 1. Introduction; 2. Third person singular pronoun and functional markers in TSM; 3. The functions of the constructions hoo7 i1 and khit4hoo7 i1; 4. The encoding of subjectification via the form of grammaticalization in hoo7 i1 and khit4hoo7 i1; 5. Conclusion; References.
- II. Problems in historical comparison and reconstructionEmergence of the tone system in the Sanjiazi dialect of Manchu; 1. Overview of the Manchu language; 2. Accent and tones in Sanjiazi Manchu; 3. How did the low tone emerge?; 4. Conclusion; Abbreviations; References; Searching for undetected genetic links between the languages of South America; 1. Introduction; 2. The Amerind hypothesis and the languages of South America; 3. Extent and representation of South American language diversity; 4. Recent advances in the reduction of lineages; 5. Increased availability of data.
- 6. The harvest of previous historical-comparative research7. Focusing on undetected phylogenetic relations; 8. Bilateral language comparison; 9. Selecting the data; 10. Preparing the data: Morphological deconstruction; 11. Preparing the data: How to deal with semantic shift?; 12. Dealing with lexical borrowing and diffusion; 13. Final word; References; Reconstructing the category of "associated motion" in Tacanan languages (Amazonian Bolivia and Peru); 1. Introduction; 2. The category of associated motion: Definition and typological framework of analysis.
- 3. Associated motion systems in Tacanan languages: A comparison4. Associated motion systems in neighboring languages: Areal perspective; 5. Reconstructing the history of AM systems in Tacanan languages; 6. Conclusions; References; The mirage of apparent morphological correspondence: A case from Indo-European; 1. Introduction; 2. The PIE 3sg middle ending *-to; 3. The PIE 1sg secondary middle ending *-h2eh2e; 4. Conclusion; References; III. Historical development of morphosyntactic features; Analogy as a source of suppletion; 1. Interactions between sound change and analogy.