Historical linguistics 1993 [[electronic resource] ] : selected papers from the 11th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Los Angeles, 16-20 August 1993 / / edited by Henning Andersen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910457278503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, c1995
• ISBN: 1-55619-578-8; 1-283-31272-7; 9786613312723; 90-272-7649-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (470 p.)
• Collana: Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, , 0304-0763 ; ; v. 124
• Altri autori (Persone): AndersenHenning <1934->
• Disciplina: 417; 417.703
• Soggetti: Historical linguistics; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS 1993; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; PREFACE; Table of contents; REGRAMMATICALIZATION AND DEGRAMMATICALIZATION OF THE INCHOATIVE SUFFIX; LIGHT SHED ON PROBLEMS OF TURKIC CONJUGATION:THE NORTHEAST TURKIC PROGRESSIVE PRESENT IN-Ipca(t)AND THE 'MIXED' CONJUGATION; ON THE HISTORY OF RELATIVE CLAUSES IN FRENCHAND SOME OF ITS DIALECTS; FUNCTIONAL RENEWAL; PASSIVES AND ERGATIVES IN MIDDLE INDO-ARYAN; EVIDENCE OFGRAMMATICALIZATION IN PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN; OLD FORMS FOR NEW CONCEPTS: THE RECATEGORIZATION OF POSSESSIVE DUPLICATIONSIN MEXICAN SPANISH; ON SUBJECTIFICATION IN MODAL ADVERBSGENDER, CLASS, AND PRESTIGEIN THE SPREAD OF AN ALLOPHONIC RULE; RECONSTRUCTION OF THE PROTO-ROMANCE SYLLABLE; THE DEVELOPMENT OF WORD-FINAL /b/ IN ENGLISH; AREAL LINGUISTICS IN PREHISTORY: EVIDENCE FROM INDO-EUROPEAN ASPECT; THE LATER STAGES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THEDEFINITE ARTICLE: EVIDENCE FROM FRENCH; ; PARAMETERS UNDERLYING THE ORGANIZATIONOF MEDIEVAL RUSSIAN TEXTS; WHAT THE CHOICE OF THE OVERT NOMINALIZER NO DIDTO MODERN JAPANESE SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS; ON CATEGORIAL EVOLUTION: A CASE STUDY IN SPANISH POSSESSIVES; REGRESSION AND CREATIONIN THE DOUBLE ACCUSATIVE IN ANCIENT GREEKMORPHOLOGICAL REANALYSIS AND TYPOLOGY:THE CASE OF THE GERMAN r-PLURALAND WHY ENGLISH DID NOT DEVELOP IT; ON THE GRAMMATICIZATION OF THE DEFINITE ARTICLE SEIN SPOKEN FINNISH; IDENTIFYING AN OLD FRENCH TEXTWITH THE HELP OF DIALECT ANALYSIS; PROTOTYPICALITY AND AGENTHOOD IN INDO-EUROPEAN; GENETIC CONGRUENCE VERSUS AREAL CONVERGENCE:THE MISFORTUNE OF LATIN AD IN ROMANIAN; ON THE FATE OF ADJECTIVAL DECLENSIONIN OVERSEAS DUTCH (WITH SOME NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF DUTCH); CLITIC PLACEMENT FROM OLD TO MODERN EUROPEAN PORTUGUESE; A DIACHRONIC VIEWOF PREPOSITIONAL VERBS OF EMOTION IN SPANISHPHONOLOGICALLY BASED MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGE:HIGH-VOWEL DELETION AND PARADIGMATIC IMPLICATIONSIN OLD ENGLISH; DIACHRONICALLY STABLE STRUCTURAL FEATURES; THE DIACHRONIC DISTRIBUTION OF BARE AND PREPOSITIONAL INFINITIVES IN ENGLISH; OBJECT SHIFT IN OLD SPANISH: A MINIMALIST THEORY APPROACH; LEXICAL DIFFUSION AS A GUIDE TO SCRIBAL INTENT:A COMPARISON OF ME «eo» AND «e» SPELLINGSIN THE PETERBOROUGH CHRONICLE AND THE ORMULUM; VERB-SECONDING IN OLD ENGLISH; THE THEMATIC STRUCTUREOF THE MAIN CLAUSE IN OLD FRENCH: OR VERSUS SI; ON DIFFERENT WAYS OFOPTIMIZING THE SOUND SHAPE OF WORDSEXAPTATION AND GRAMMATICALIZATION; AUTHORS' ADDRESSES; INDEX OF NAMES; INDEX OF LANGUAGES
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume contains a selection of 34 of the 96 papers presented at ICHL 1993, including several of the contributions to the workshop on Parameters and Typology organized jointly by Henning Andersen and David W. Lightfoot. Major topics represented are grammaticalization and functional renewal (illustrated with changes in romance, French, Pennsylvania German, Afrikaans, English, Finnish), changes in syntax (Indo-European, Indo-Aryan, Ancient Greek, Romanian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Japanese, Dutch, English) and discourse structure (Old Russian, Old French), morphology (German, Turkic), ph