Papers from the Third International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Hamburg, August 22-26, 1977

PREFACE......Page 6
PROGRAM OF III.=3.ICHL......Page 8
Table of contents......Page 15
SYNCHRONIC, DIACHRONIC, AND PANCHRONIC LINGUISTICS......Page 18
NOTE:......Page 26
REFERENCES:......Page 27
1. DIALECT BORROWING AS A MEANS OF LANGUAGE CHANGE......Page 28
2. CRITICISM OF DIALECT BORROWING AS AN EXPLANATION OF LANGUAGE CHANGE......Page 29
3. TRUDGILL'S FORMULA......Page 31
4. TESTING TRUDGILL'S FORMULA: THE INFLUENCE OF THE DIALECT OF AMSTERDAM ON THE DIALECTS OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD......Page 34
5. FINAL REMARKS......Page 51
NOTES :......Page 52
REFERENCES :......Page 53
DEVELOPMENT OF TONES IN LANGUAGES WITH DISTINCTIVE TONAL ACCENTS......Page 56
NOTES:......Page 65
REFERENCES:......Page 66
0. SYNCHRONY AND DIACHRONY DEFINED......Page 68
1. EARLIEST EVIDENCE......Page 69
2. 19TH CENTURY HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS......Page 70
4. TRADITIONAL DIALECTOLOGISTS......Page 72
6. STRUCTURALISTS......Page 73
7. T.G. LINGUISTS......Page 74
9. VARIATIONISTS......Page 76
11. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION......Page 79
REFERENCES:......Page 80
DETERMINISM IN LINGUISTICS: NEOGRAMMARIAN AND TRANSFORMATIONALIST......Page 82
REFERENCES:......Page 90
INTRODUCTION......Page 92
TONAL DEVELOPMENT DUE TO CONSONANTAL INFLUENCE......Page 95
TONAL DEVELOPMENT AND VOWELS......Page 98
REFERENCES :......Page 99
2. A JUSTIFICATION OF TELEOLOGY......Page 102
3. TERMINOLOGICAL CLARIFICATIONS......Page 105
4. THE GOAL OF SHORT-TERM TELEOLOGICAL CHANGE......Page 106
5. SUBDIVISIONS WITHIN THE OVER-ALL LINGUISTIC SYSTEM......Page 107
6. TELEOLOGICAL EXPLANATION OF SHORT-TERM CHANGE......Page 109
7. THE INDIVIDUAL-PSYCHOLOGICAL VERSION OF THE TELEOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONOF SHORT-TERM CHANGE EQUALS RATIONAL EXPLANATION......Page 110
8. LONG-TERM TELEOLOGICAL CHANGE OR DRIFT......Page 114
A. Phonology and Morphology......Page 121
10. A COMPARISON WITH ANDERSEN'S (1974) TYPOLOGY OF LINGUISTIC CHANGE......Page 129
NOTES:......Page 131
REFERENCES:......Page 133
SOUND CHANGE AND PERCEPTUAL COMPENSATION......Page 136
NOTES:......Page 143
REFERENCES:......Page 144
1.0 The Problem Defined......Page 146
2.0 Theoretical Presuppositions......Page 147
3.0 Considerations for the Historical Argument......Page 150
4.0 'Schleicherian Paradigm' vs 'Neogrammarian Breakthrough'......Page 153
5.0 Concluding Remarks......Page 161
NOTES......Page 162
REFERENCES......Page 166
OBSERVATIONS ON THE SOURCES, TRANSMISSION, AND MEANING OF 'INDO-EUROPEAN' AND RELATED TERMS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF LINGUISTICS......Page 170
1.0 Notes on the development of the concept of 'Indo-European'......Page 171
2.0 On the origin of 'Indo-European'......Page 174
3.0 On the origin of 'Indo-Germanic '......Page 177
4.0 On the origin, uses and abuses of 'Aryan'......Page 185
5.0 Concluding Remarks......Page 189
NOTES......Page 191
REFERENCES......Page 193
1. THE "PROBLEM": INFINITIVAL POSTMODIFIERS......Page 198
2. DEMONSTRATION OF UNDERSPECIFIED MODALITY......Page 199
3.1. Nature of Language as a Means of Communication......Page 202
3.2. Perception......Page 203
3.3. Nature of the Infinitive......Page 204
3.4. Underspecified Modality......Page 205
3.5. Nature of "have/be" as Underspecified Elements......Page 206
4.1. The Perceptual Basis of Grammatical Theory......Page 207
4.3. The Contrastive Approach......Page 208
4.4. Panchrony: Dynamic Synchrony as a Basis for Diachronic Change......Page 209
NOTES:......Page 211
REFERENCES:......Page 212
THE PHONETIC NATURE OF THE NEO-ŠTOKAVIAN ACCENT SHIFT IN SERBO-CROATIAN......Page 214
REFERENCES:......Page 223
HOMO : HVMVS AND THE SEMITIC COUNTERPARTS: THE OLDEST CULTURALLY SIGNIFICANT ETYMOLOGY?......Page 224
NOTES......Page 230
REFERENCES......Page 232
LA DESINENCE FEMININE -esse......Page 234
NOTES :......Page 248
A. Dictionnaires Utilisés:......Page 249
OUVRAGES CONSULTÉS:......Page 250
BETWEEN MONOGENESIS AND POLYGENESIS......Page 252
NOTES:......Page 279
REFERENCES:......Page 286
1. THE COMPARATIVE METHOD:......Page 290
1.2. Regularity in Syntactic Change:......Page 291
1.3. Further Complicating Factors:......Page 292
1.4. Priorities:......Page 293
2. WORD ORDER TYPOLOGIES:......Page 295
2.1. Contradiction in the Method:......Page 296
2.2.2. The Relative Power of Individual Shifts:......Page 299
2.2.4. Internal Counter-consistent Tendencies:......Page 300
3.1. Internal Causes:......Page 301
3.2. External Causes:......Page 304
4. CONCLUSIONS:......Page 305
REFERENCES:......Page 306
A SYNTACTIC CORRELATE OF STYLE SWITCHING IN THE CANTERBURY TALES......Page 310
APPENDIX......Page 330
REFERENCES:......Page 338
INTRODUCTION......Page 340
THE OLD SAXON CONSONANTS......Page 341
THE LABIALS IN FINAL POSITION......Page 343
THE DENTALS IN FINAL POSITION......Page 346
THE VELARS IN FINAL POSITION......Page 353
NOTES:......Page 358
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:......Page 359
THE APPLICATION OF THE COMPARATIVE METHOD TO PHILIPPINE LANGUAGES......Page 362
NOTES :......Page 371
REFERENCES :......Page 373
HISTORICAL ANALOGY AND THE PEIRCEAN CATEGORIES......Page 376
THE PIE WORD ORDER CONTROVERSY AND WORD ORDER IN LITHUANIAN......Page 386
NOTES:......Page 399
REFERENCES:......Page 401
ON THE PROBLEM OF MERGER......Page 404
REFERENCES:......Page 409
DISCRIMINATION OR MERGER BY SYNCOPATION IN DIFFERENT MORPHOPHONEMIC STRUCTURES IN DIFFERENT DIALECTS......Page 411
THE LATINATE TRADITION......Page 414
OJIBWA TRANSITIVE AND INTRANSITIVE PARADIGMS......Page 415
THE INFLECTIONAL NEUTRALIZATION OF THE TRANSITIVITY OPPOSITION......Page 423
THE WORD-AND-PARADIGM MODEL OF LINGUISTIC CHANGE......Page 426
DRIFT AND TYPOLOGICAL CHANGE......Page 428
NOTES :......Page 430
POSTSCRIPT:......Page 431
REFERENCES :......Page 432
INDEX OF NAMES......Page 436
SUBJECT MATTER INDEX......Page 440