Historical Linguistics 1999: Selected Papers from the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, 9-13 August 1999Laurel J. Brinton This is a selection of papers from the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics held August 9-13, 1999, at the University of British Columbia. From the rich program and the many papers given during this conference, the present twenty-three papers were carefully selected to display the state of current research in the field of historical linguistics. |
Contents
Recent advances in the reconstruction of the ProtoMunda verb | 13 |
Multivariable Reanalysis and phonological split | 31 |
Are Old English conjunct clauses really verbfinal? | 49 |
Alternation according to person in ItaloRomance | 63 |
Language change and the phonological lexicon of Korean | 89 |
Animals and vegetables UtoAztecan noun derivation semantic | 105 |
Gradience and linguistic change | 119 |
Evidence and implications | 145 |
Innovation of the indirect reflexive in Old French | 223 |
Lexical forces shaping the evolution of grammar | 241 |
Animacy topicality and possessive relationship | 277 |
Default inheritance hierarchies and the evolution of inflectional classes | 293 |
The current challenges to comparative | 309 |
Modeling koineization | 325 |
Structural contact features in Celtic and English | 351 |
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Rapid change among expletive polarity items | 175 |
From prenominal | 187 |
A new perspective | 207 |
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3rd person ablaut adjective Akkadian alternation according animacy animate Aramaic assonant Cambridge century clitic complement conjunct clauses consonant construction contexts contrast coreferential pronouns declension declension classes declensional deictic demonstratives dental derivative i-stem devoicing diachronic dialects elements English Epic Sanskrit example factitive feminine forms frequency function gender gradience Grammar grammaticalization Historical Linguistics i-stem nominals imperfective Indo-European infinitival clauses innovation Insular Celtic Ixcatec koineization Korean labial Latin lexical Lexical Diffusion lexicon marker Mazatec mixed paradigm Modern morphemes morphological mother'-'father Munda languages Nahuatl nasal noun of-genitive origin palatal Pāli paper participle pattern person singular personal pronouns phonetic phonological phonosymbolism plural Popoloc Portuguese inflected infinitive possessor preaspiration predicates prefix prepositional pronominal pronouns Proto-Munda reanalysis reconstruction rhyme Romance s-genitive semantic Semitic Sino-Korean speakers stød structure Studies suffixes synchronic syntactic Syntax Theory topicality University Press Uto-Aztecan variation Vedic verb-final vowel vowel length word order