Variation and Reconstruction

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Thomas D. Cravens

| University of Wisconsin, Madison

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The relation of language variation to reconstructed languages and to the methodology of reconstruction has long been neglected. The articles in the present volume consider this relationship from a number of different angles, with a number of different focuses. Several of the papers discuss evidence from Germanic, either Proto-Germanic (Joseph, Schwink), or daughter languages such as Dutch (Goss & Howell), Afrikaans (Roberge), Newcastle English (Milroy), and a Wisconsin German dialect (Geiger & Salmons). Other papers look at Italian (Cravens), Spanish (Harris-Northall), and the non-Indo-European languages or families Aramaic (Miller), and Proto-Hmong-Mien (Ratliff), and the Southeast Asian languages Phan Rang Cham and Tsat (Thurgood). In doing so they bring together a number of interconnected issues which are of current concern in comparative and historical linguistics.

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 268] 2006. viii, 223 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.268

Table of Contents

Variation and reconstruction Mary K. Niepokuj	1
Microvariability in time and space: Reconstructing the past from the present Thomas D. Cravens	16
Reconstructing variation at shallow time depths: The historical phonetics of 19th century German dialects in the U.S. Steven R. Geiger and Joseph C. Salmons	37
Social and structural factors in the development of Dutch urban dialects in the Early Modern period Emily L. Goss and Robert B. Howell	59
Reduction of variation in the standardization of Castilian Spanish around 1500 Ray Harris-Northall	91
On projecting variation back into a proto-language, with particular attention to Germanic evidence and some thoughts on “drift” Brian D. Joseph	103
Variation of direct speech complementizers in Achaemenid Aramaic documents from Fifth Century B.C.E. Egypt Cynthia L. Miller-Naudé	119
Language change and the speaker: On the discourse of Historical Linguistics James Milroy	147
Prefix variation and reconstruction Martha Ratliff	165
On reconstructing a linguistic continuum in Cape Dutch (1710 1840) Paul T. Roberge	179
The reconstruction of variability in Proto-Germanic gender Frederick W. Schwink	203
Variation as a reflection of contact: Notes from Southeast Asia Graham Thurgood	215
Index	223

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Hualde, José Ignacio

2011. In The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, ► pp. 1 ff.

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Subjects

Linguistics

Historical linguistics

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

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

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2005053171 | Marc record