Papers from the Fifth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Galway, April 6–10 1981

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This volume presents a selection of the best papers from the Fifth International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL), which was held in Galway, April 6–10 1981. These papers provide an overview of work in the field of historical linguistics, covering a wide variety of topics and languages.

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 21] 1982. xxix, 527 pp.

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Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Liste des participants	x
Endgültiges Programm der Konferenz	xviii
On explaining language change Martin B. Harris	1
Assibilation in Sino-Korean Eung-Jin Baek	15
Le français de demain: VSO ou VOS Joëlle Bailard	20
Why small children cannot change language on their own: suggestions from the English past tense Joan L. Bybee and Dan I. Slobin	29
The analogical pressure of synonymy: the dual gender of Spanish mar ‘sea’ Thomas D. Cravens	38
Subject raising in Old Irish Dorothy Disterheft	44
The system of verbs involving a speaker-hearer relationship: come/go, bring/take, in Old and Middle English Thomas H.K. Fraser	54
Word order change in Dutch imparative clauses: the interaction between contextual and syntactic factors Marinel Gerritsen	62
On the development of the modals and the epistemic function in English Louis Goossens	74
Some phonological changes in Polynesian languages R.B. Harlow	98
Ablaut and syntax in Kartvelian Alice C. Harris	110
Shifting systems: evidence for systemic change in French historical phonology John Hewson	117
Aspects of the evolution of relatives in Romance Paul Hirschbühler and María Luisa Rivero	123
On the historical continuity of linguistic systems Eugene Holman	133
Change of language as a prototype for change of linguistics Esa Itkonen	142
Diachronic facts vs. synchronic fiction: historical linguistic evidence against assuming underlying grammatical uniformity for contemporary dialects of the same language Richard D. Janda	149
Semantic change and etymologies D.M. Job	163
Morphologycal influences on soundchange Steve Johnson	171
The system of negation in later Middle English prose André Joly	176
Reductive phonetic developments as the trigger to typological change: two examples from the Finno-Ugrian languages Mikko Korhonen	190
Modern Irish grammars and the plural marker acha Heidi Ann Lazar-Meyn	196
Graphology and sound change in Old Prussian Jules Levin	201
Iconicity in phonological change Bruce Mannheim and Madeleine Newfield	211
On the problem of historical interpretation: Verner’s law in gothic James Milroy	223
The mistery of the vanished Laurentinians Marianne Mithun	230
On the origin of the Portugese inflected infinitive Bruce Osborne	243
Schreibumwertung und die Methoden der historischen Phonologie Herbert Penzl	249
On the sources of Indo-European conjunctions of purpos, cause and result W.J. Pepicello	256
A Neglected phonetic law: the reduction of the Indo-European laryngeals in internal syllables before yod Georges-Jean Pinault	265
Explorations on syntactic change (relative clause formation strategies) Anna Giacalone Ramat	283
The reconstruction of language in its social context: methodology for a socio-historical linguistic theory Suzanne Romaine	293
Vivid language and language change Janet E. Scott	304
From deontic to epistemic: an analysis of modals in the history of English, creoles, and language acquisition Susan C. Shepherd	316
On short-term language change: developments in Irish morphology Nancy J. Stenson	324
Conversational pues in Spanish: a proces of degrammaticalization? Iraset Páez Urdaneta	332
Numerical and socio-linguistic perspectives of the p/pf-isogloss in South-Rhenish Franconian dialects P. Sture Ureland	341
Historical metrics: the caesura in French S. Paul Verluyten	356
Structural change and pidginization in the history of the Arabic language Kees Versteegh	362
Theories of language and the nature of evidence and explanation in historical linguistics Jana Vizmuller	374
From discourse to syntax: for in Early English causal clauses Nancy Wiegand	385
Historical linguistics and metaphilology H. Christoph Wolfart	394
On the historical roots of the philology and historical linguistics Breandán Ö Buachalla	425
Scribal practise and historical phonology Henning Andersen	433
Discussion	442
Concluding remarks Elizabeth Closs Traugott	460
Index Fontium et Nominum	467
Index Linguarum	508
Index Rerum	516

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Romaine, Suzanne

1983. Anthony Warner, Complementation in Middle English syntax and the methodology of historical syntax. London: Croom Helm, 1982. Pp. 266.. Journal of Linguistics 19:2 ► pp. 478 ff.

Traugott, Elizabeth Closs & Richard B. Dasher

2001. In Regularity in Semantic Change,

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Subjects

Linguistics

Historical linguistics

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

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