Historical Linguistics 1999: Selected Papers from the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, 9-13 August 1999

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dedication......Page 6
Table of contents......Page 8
Contributors’ addresses......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
1. How far has far from become grammaticalized?......Page 14
2. Recent advances in the reconstructionof the Proto-Munda verb......Page 26
3. Multivariable Reanalysis and phonological split......Page 44
4. Are Old English conjunct clauses really verb-final?......Page 62
5. Alternation according to personin Italo-Romance......Page 76
6. On ablaut and aspect in the history of Aramaic......Page 88
7. Language changeand the phonological lexicon of Korean......Page 102
8. Animals and vegetables,Uto-Aztecan noun derivation, semantic classification, and cultural history......Page 118
9. Gradience and linguistic change......Page 132
10. Distinctive vowel length in Old French: Evidence and Implications......Page 158
11. Remains of a submerged continent: Preaspiration in the languages of Northwest Europe......Page 170
12. Rapid change among expletive polarity items......Page 188
13. The conversational factor in language change: From prenominal to postnominal demonstratives......Page 200
14. On the origin of the Portuguese inflected infinitive: A new perspective on an enduring debate......Page 220
15. Innovation of the indirect reflexivein Old French......Page 236
16. Lexical forces shaping the evolution of grammar......Page 254
17. Why “me” and “thee”?......Page 266
18. The English s-genitiveAnimacy, topicality, andpossessi ve relationship in a diachronic perspective......Page 290
19. Default inheritance hierarchies and the evolution of inflectional classes......Page 306
20. On the eve of a new paradigm: The current challenges to comparative linguistics in a Kuhnian perspective......Page 322
21. Modeling koineization......Page 338
22. Coreference in the Popolocan languages......Page 350
23. Atlantis Semitica: Structural contact features in Celtic and English......Page 364
Index of languages and language families......Page 384
Index of names......Page 390
Index of subjects......Page 398
CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY......Page 403