Competing Models of Linguistic Change: Evolution and Beyond

Competing Models of Linguistic Change......Page 2
Editorial page......Page 3
Title page......Page 4
LCC data......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
INTRODUCTION......Page 8
1. The papers......Page 9
2. Concluding remarks......Page 20
REFERENCES......Page 21
1. The Whiteheadian framework......Page 24
2. Examples of non-linear diachronic change......Page 28
3. Types of prehension involved in diachronic change......Page 31
REFERENCES......Page 36
APPENDIX......Page 38
1. Introduction......Page 40
2. Within the frame of philosophy of science......Page 41
3. Back to the chain movements —but still within a theoretical frame......Page 43
4. Concluding remarks......Page 46
REFERENCES......Page 48
1. Introduction......Page 50
2. Example: Testing the Martinet Hypothesis in a Cantonese merger......Page 51
3. Defining the functional load of binary oppositions......Page 52
4. Defining the functional load of general phonological contrasts......Page 57
5. Summary......Page 59
REFERENCES......Page 60
APPENDIX A......Page 62
APPENDIX B......Page 65
0. Preamble......Page 66
1. Introduction......Page 67
2. The historical level......Page 72
3. The general level: Change schemas and laws of change......Page 81
4. Why the mechanisms of evolution do not explain language change......Page 82
5. The universal level: on the changeability of languages......Page 88
6. Conclusion: Explaining language change......Page 91
REFERENCES......Page 93
1. Introduction......Page 98
2. The generalized analysis of selection (GAS)......Page 100
3. Language change and language......Page 103
4. Variation in language......Page 105
5. The instantiation of GAS in language change......Page 111
6. Relevance (i): Basic theoretical issues in language change......Page 114
7. Relevance (ii): Biological concepts and techniques in historical linguistics......Page 119
8. Relevance (iii): Mechanisms of language change......Page 122
9. Relevance (iv): An integrated theory of language change — and of language......Page 130
REFERENCES......Page 132
1. Introduction......Page 140
2. The Spanish Indirect Object and its Drift towards grammaticalization......Page 142
3. IO cross-reference and head marking in the 20th century......Page 157
4. Conclusion......Page 164
REFERENCES......Page 165
1. Introduction......Page 170
2. The evolutionary scenario......Page 171
3. Prepositional Dative Marking in Upper German......Page 177
4. Prepositional Dative Marking in the light of the evolutionary scenario......Page 183
5. Conclusion: The case for the concept of variant ‘implementation’......Page 186
REFERENCES......Page 189
0. Preamble......Page 190
1. Introduction......Page 191
2. DATR based morphology......Page 195
3. Morphological typology, variation, and change......Page 198
4. The History of the German declension......Page 202
5. Conclusion: ‘Prototypicality’ in linguistic change......Page 213
REFERENCES......Page 215
1. Introduction......Page 218
2. The Old Russian System......Page 222
3. The Modern Russian system......Page 231
4. Conclusion: The role of aspect in the changes......Page 239
REFERENCES......Page 241
1. Introduction......Page 242
2. Lexical variation and semantic change of some abstract nouns......Page 244
3. Summary and conclusion......Page 257
REFERENCES......Page 258
2. Clitic placement in Old Spanish......Page 260
3. Dynamic Syntax analysis......Page 263
4. Conclusion......Page 274
REFERENCES......Page 275
1. Introduction......Page 276
2. The results of the changes: The Danish and the Swedish s-forms......Page 277
3. Middle voice and passive voice......Page 281
4. The lack of the s-mood in the past tense of strong verbs in Danish......Page 283
5. A traditional account......Page 285
6. The internal structure of the paradigm......Page 288
7. Conclusion......Page 293
REFERENCES......Page 294
1. Introduction......Page 296
2. Animacy......Page 297
3. Aspect......Page 302
4. Parallel Grammaticalization......Page 308
REFERENCES......Page 311
1. Introduction: An integrated functional–pragmatic theory of language and language change......Page 314
2. Towards understanding language and language change......Page 320
3. Language change: Meta-grammar and meta-communication......Page 327
4. A juridical, speech-act theoretical conception of language and language change......Page 332
REFERENCES......Page 339
INDEX......Page 346
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 350
The series CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY......Page 352