Morphology and Language History

In honour of Harold Koch

Editors

Claire Bowern

| Yale University

Bethwyn Evans

| University of Manchester

Luisa Miceli

| University of Western Australia

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This volume aims to make a contribution to codifying the methods and practices linguists use to recover language history, focussing predominantly on historical morphology. The volume includes studies on a wide range of languages: not only Indo-European, but also Austronesian, Sinitic, Mon-Khmer, Basque, one Papuan language family, as well as a number of Australian families. Few collections are as cross-linguistic as this, reflecting the new challenges which have emerged from the study of languages outside those best known from historical linguistics. The contributors illustrate shared methodological and theoretical issues concerning genetic relatedness (that is, the use of morphological evidence for classification and subgrouping), reconstruction and processes of change with a diverse range of data. The volume is in honour of Harold Koch, who has long combined innovative research on understudied languages with methodological rigour and codification of practices within the discipline.

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 298] 2008. x, 364 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.298

Table of Contents

Contributors' addresses	vii–ix
Introduction Claire Bowern, Bethwyn Evans, Grace Koch and Luisa Miceli	1–11
Part I. Genetic relatedness	13
1. Western Torres Strait language classification and development Barry Alpher, Geoffrey O’Grady and Claire Bowern	15–30
2. The classification of Pinikura, Western Australia Peter Austin	31–41
3. Bound pronominals in the West Papuan languages Mark Donohue	43–58
4. Alawa and its neighbours: Enigma variations 1 and 2 Margaret Sharpe	59–69
5. Reconstructing pre-Warumungu pronominals Jane Simpson	71–87
Part II. Reconstruction	89
6. Splitting vs. lumping in morphological analysis: Evidence from Greek Avery D. Andrews	91–97
7. Pronominal accretions in Pama-Nyungan Paul Black	99–106
8. Associated eating and movement: further examination of Yuwaalaraay Gamilaraay verb suffixes John Giacon	107–121
9. The origin of conjugation markers in Australian languages Mark Harvey	123–137
10. Some remarks on negatives in Southeastern Australia Luise Hercus and Stephen Morey	139–154
11. gṷes-, (z)g ṷes-, *(s)g ṷesh2-? The PIE root for 'extinguish/go out' Jay H. Jasanoff	155–166
12. The language of Central Australian Aboriginal songs Grace Koch and Myfany Turpin	167–183
13. The origin of noun classes in Worrorran languages William B. McGregor	185–200
14. Hittite duwān (parā) H. Craig Melchert	201–209
15. Morphological reconstruction and Australian languages Luisa Miceli	211–219
16. Warlpiri verb roots in comparative perspective David Nash	221–234
17. Oujiang Wu tones and acoustic reconstruction Phil Rose	235–250
18. Issues in the morphological reconstruction of Proto-Mon-Khmer Paul J. Sidwell	251–265
Part III. Processes of change	267
19. Case selection Old and New Basque Cathryn Donohue	269–280
20. Third person plural as a morphological zero: Object marking in Marovo Bethwyn Evans	281–298
21. The morphological development of the perfect in Jersey Norman French Anthony J. Liddicoat and Timothy Jowan Curnow	299–312
22. Grand-daddy morphs: The importance of suffixes in reconstructing Pama-Nyungan kinship Patrick McConvell	313–327
23. Morphology of the eggs, and what it can tell us about Romanian nominal inflection Kim Schulte	329–339
24. The refunctionalisation of first person plural inflection in Tiwi John Charles Smith	341–348
25. A chain vowel raising in the early history of Chinese Xiaonong Zhu	349–354
Index of languages	355–359
Index of subjects	361–364

“Comparative studies of Australian languages have recurrently suffered either from a lack of methodological rigour, or from the belief that the comparative method simply does not apply on this continent. Over three decades Harold Koch's patient and painstaking work, by bringing an Indo-Europeanist training to bear on what appear to be intractable problems, is a welcome corrective to these trends. The papers in this volume pay a suitable tribute to his work, ranging over a number of philological problems in Australian languages with a leavening of other reconstructive work on Hittite, Papuan, Mon-Khmer, Basque and Sino-Tibetan. There is a particular emphasis on morphological reconstruction, which is at the same time a still-underdeveloped aspect of the comparative method and the likely key to many problems in comparative Australian linguistics.”

Nick Evans, Professor of Linguistics, Australian National University

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Robbeets, Martine & Walter Bisang

2014. In Paradigm Change [Studies in Language Companion Series, 161], ► pp. 1 ff.

Stockigt, Clara

2015. Early Descriptions of Pama-Nyungan Ergativity. Historiographia Linguistica 42:2-3 ► pp. 335 ff.

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Subjects

Linguistics

Historical linguistics

Theoretical linguistics

Contact Linguistics

Morphology

BIC Subject: CFF – Historical & comparative linguistics

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

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2008019102 | Marc record