LEADER 04647nam 2200589 a 450 001 9910816817803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-16373-6 010 $a9786612163739 010 $a90-272-9960-9 035 $a(CKB)1000000000551274 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000284783 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11228483 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000284783 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10277282 035 $a(PQKB)11123820 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC623209 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000551274 100 $a20000211d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aTextual parameters in older languages /$fedited by Susan C. Herring, Pieter van Reneen, Lene Schsler 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAmsterdam ;$aPhiladelphia, Pa. $cJ. Benjamins Pub.$dc2000 215 $a1 online resource (467 pages) 225 1 $aAmsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory,$x0304-0763 ;$vv. 195 300 $aIncludes revised versions of papers originally presented at the 11th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, held at the University of California, Los Angeles, Aug. 1993. 311 $a1-55619-973-2 311 $a90-272-3702-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $aTEXTUAL PARAMETERS IN OLDER LANGUAGES -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication -- Preface -- Contents -- On Textual Parameters and Older Languages -- Methodologies and Ideologies in Historical Linguistics: On Working with Older Languages -- The Pragmatic Functions of the Old French Particles AINZ, APRES, DONC, LORS, OR, PUIS, and SI -- Discourse Organization and Anaphora in Latin -- The Importance of Discourse Types in Grammaticalization: The Case of Anon -- Genre, Discourse, and Syntax in Early Indo-European, with Emphasis on Sanskrit -- Poeticality and Word Order in Old Tamil -- Suppressed Assertion and the Functions of the Final-Attributive in Prose and Poetry of Heian Japanese -- Robert Keayne's Notebooks: A Verbatim Record of Spoken English in Early Boston? -- Textual Authenticity: Evidence from Medieval Greek -- Parameters Underlying Punctuation in Older Russian Texts -- The Middle English Verb-Second Constraint: A Case Study in Language Contact and Language Change -- A la Recherche du Word Order Not Quite Perdu: A methodological progress report -- Index of Languages -- Index of Subjects -- CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY. 330 $aTextual Parameters in Older Languages takes a contemporary approach to the inherent limitations of using older texts as data for linguistic analysis, drawing on methods of text analysis, pragmatics and sociolinguistics to supplement traditional historical and philological methods. The focus of the book is on the importance of controlling for textual parameters-defined by the editors as dimensions of variation associated with texts and their production, including text type, degree of poeticality, orality, and dialect-in the analysis of older language data. Failure to do so can result in invalid generalizations; recognizing the influence of textual parameters, conversely, raises a myriad of issues for the practice and theory of historical linguistics.The 12 essays in this collection apply this approach in analyses of anaphora, non-finite verbal forms, particles, punctuation, word order and other phenomena in a wide range of languages including Ancient Tamil, Sanskrit, Latin, Heian Japanese, Medieval Greek, Old French, Old Russian, Middle English, and Modern Danish. An in-depth introduction by the editors lays out the goals of the textual parameters approach, and considers the methodological and theoretical consequences of the evidence presented in the book as a whole. 410 0$aAmsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science.$nSeries IV,$pCurrent issues in linguistic theory ;$vv. 195. 606 $aDiscourse analysis 606 $aHistorical linguistics 615 0$aDiscourse analysis. 615 0$aHistorical linguistics. 676 $a417/.7 701 $aHerring$b Susan C$0148381 701 $aReenen$b Pieter Th. van$0183009 701 $aSchsler$b Lene$f1946-$0879128 712 12$aInternational Conference on Historical Linguistics$d(11th :$f1993 :$eUniversity of California, Los Angeles) 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816817803321 996 $aTextual parameters in older languages$94198677 997 $aUNINA