03709nam 2200625 a 450 991081307150332120230421050654.01-283-31324-3978661331324990-272-7750-8(CKB)2550000000063062(EBL)793540(OCoLC)759101347(SSID)ssj0000993675(PQKBManifestationID)11553832(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000993675(PQKBWorkID)10956637(PQKB)11473817(MiAaPQ)EBC793540(Au-PeEL)EBL793540(CaPaEBR)ebr10508961(CaONFJC)MIL331324(EXLCZ)99255000000006306219920630d1992 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrExplanation in historical linguistics[electronic resource] /edited by Garry W. Davis and Gregory K. IversonAmsterdam ;Philadelphia J. Benjamins19921 online resource (252 p.)Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory,0304-0763 ;v. 84Papers presented the 19th annual University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Linguistics Symposium, which was held Apr. 20-22, 1990.90-272-3581-3 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.EXPLANATION IN HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; Event structure accounting for the emerging periphrastic tenses and the passive voice in German; Historical explanation and historical linguistics; Elements of resistance in contact-induced language change; Articulatory variability, categorical perception, and the inevitability of sound change; On the historical development of marked forms; On misusing similarity; Reconstruction and syntactic typology: a plea for a different approachDiachronic explanation: Putting speakers back into the pictureGrammatical prototypes and competing motivations in a theory of linguistic change; Understanding standards; Rules and analogy; The development of perfect reduplication in Indo-European; A look at the data for a global etymology: *tik 'finger'; Author index; Subject index; Language indexThis is the first of two volumes deriving from papers presented at the Nineteenth Annual UVM Linguistics Symposium held in Milwaukee in April 1990. The contributions in this volume investigate the general question of what constitutes an explanation of diachronic change, and illustrate their proposals in the context of various specific problems in historical linguistics. The present volume also includes a solicited paper by Eric P. Hamp ("On remote reconstruction") that addresses the validity of distant reconstructions like those of Nostratic and Proto-World. Content: Garry W. Davis & GregorAmsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science.Series IV,Current issues in linguistic theory ;v. 84.Historical linguisticsCongressesExplanation (Linguistics)CongressesHistorical linguisticsExplanation (Linguistics)415Davis Garry W164715Iverson Gregory K164716Linguistics Symposium of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee(19th :1990)MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813071503321Explanation in historical linguistics4070541UNINA