Papers from the 7th International Conference on Historical Linguistics

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Anna Giacalone Ramat

Onofrio Carruba

Giuliano Bernini

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These papers, deriving from the 7th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL) in Pavia in 1984, provide an overview of the current status of research in this field. They clearly show that new issues are emerging in the theory of linguistic change which tend to incorporate non-autonomous principles like naturalness in phonetic processes, the influence of socio-cultural settings and discourse pragmatics.

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 48] 1987. xvi, 672 pp.

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https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.48

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
General programme of the Conference	xi
Gothic obstruents: the limits of reconstruction John M. Anderson	1
Structure de l’énoncé indo-européen Françoise Bader	13
Il s’en va où le français, et pourquoi? Joëlle Bailard	35
Attempting the reconstruction of negotion patterns in PIE Giuliano Bernini	57
Structure and origin of the “narrative” imperfect Pier Marco Bertinetto	71
The evolution of word order: A paedomorphic explanation Bernard H. Bichakjian	87
The evolution of future meaning Joan L. Bybee and William Pagliuca	109
Syntactic change and the lexicon Theodora Bynon	123
Die syntax der ältesten lateinischen Prosa Gualtiero Calboli	137
Diachronic evidence and the affix-clitic distinction Andrew D. Carstairs-McCarthy	151
The syllable and phonological strength: Gradient loss of gemination in Corsican Thomas D. Cravens	163
Diachronic semantic processes in the middel voice William A. Croft, Hava Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot and Suzanne Kemmer	179
Drift and selective mechanisms in morphological change: the Eastern nilotic case Gerrit J. Dimmendaal	193
The diachronic relationship of morphology and syntax Dorothy Disterheft	211
Old English þa, temporal chains, and narrative structure Nils Erik Enkvist and Brita Wårvik	221
The establishment of “by” to denote agency in Emglish passive constructions Thomas H.K. Fraser	239
From Indo-European perfect to Slavic perfect to Slavic preterite Herbert Galton	251
On doing comparative reconstruction with genetically unrelated languages John Harris	267
Α(ἰ)εί and the prehistory of Greek noun accentuation Henry M. Hoenigswald	283
The instability of peripheral /e./, /ø./, and /o./ in Dutch lects Cor Hoppenbrouwers	285
Structuralism and diachrony: the development of the indefinite article in English Paul J. Hopper and Janice Martin	295
On methodology in syntactic reconstruction: reconstructing inter-clause syntax in prehistoric Indo-European Robert J. Jeffers	305
Considerazioni sulla cronologia relativa dei mutamenti fonetici Romano Lazzeroni	325
Time Winfred P. Lehmann	339
Auxiliary verbs in the universal theory of language change Helmut Lüdtke	349
Patterns of case syncretism in Indo-European languages Silvia Luraghi	355
Integration of phonosymbolism with other categories of language change Yakov Malkiel	373
The grammaticalization of social relationship: the origin of number to encode deference Derry L. Malsch	407
From conversational to conventional implicature: the romanian pronouns of identity and their substitutes Maria M. Manoliu	419
Note su /s/ interconsonantica nei dialetti greci antichi Celestina Milani	429
The prosodic character of early schwa deletion in English Donka Minkova	445
Articulatory evolution William Pagliuca and Richard Mowrey	459
Creolization and syntactic change in Romance Rebecca Posner	473
Syllabicity as a genus, Sievers’ law as a species Aldo Luigi Prosdocimi	483
Die entwicklung von komplexen zu einfachen semantischen inhalten Norbert Reiter	507
A performance model for a natural theory of linguistic change Elke Ronneberger-Sibold	517
On “normal” full root structure and its historical development Haiim B. Rosén	535
The rise and fall of final devoicing Thomas F. Shannon	545
On the historical relation between mental and speech act verbs in English and Japanese Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Richard Dasher	561
On the persistence of imperfect grammars: clitic movement from Late Latin to Romance Dieter Wanner	575
The aim of morphological change is a good mixture — not a unifrom language type Otmar Werner	591
Syntactic and semantic space: the development of the French subjunctive Margaret E. Winters	607
The study of semantic change in early Romance (late Latin) Roger Wright	619
Paradigmentstrukturbedingungen: Aufbau und veränderung von flexionsparadigmen Wolfgang Ullrich Wurzel	629
Index of names	645
Index of languages	657
Index of subject matter	665

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Subjects

Linguistics

Historical linguistics

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

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

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