Papers from the VIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics

PAPERS from the 6th International Conference on Historical Linguistics......Page 2
Editorial page......Page 3
Title page......Page 4
Dedication......Page 6
Copyright page......Page 7
Table of contents......Page 8
PREFACE......Page 12
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS......Page 14
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME......Page 20
DIVERGENCE AND CONVERGENCE IN LINGUISTIC EVOLUTION......Page 26
REFERENCES......Page 45
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 49
AREAL LINGUISTICS AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS......Page 50
REFERENCES......Page 74
PARADIGM ECONOMY IN LATIN NOUNS......Page 82
REFERENCES......Page 95
ABLAUT: APHOENIX IN THE HISTORY OF AFRIKAANS......Page 96
REFERENCES......Page 106
ON ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS IN SOUND CHANGE......Page 108
I. ANALYTICAL CHANGES......Page 109
II. SYNTHETIC CHANGES......Page 117
III. THE COMPARISON OF ANALYTICAL AND SYNTHETIC CHANGES......Page 118
APPENDIX: ADDITIONAL DATA......Page 124
REFERENCES......Page 126
ON THE DIACHRONY OF SUBTRACTIVE OPERATIONS: EVIDENCE FOR SEMIOTICALLY BASED MODELS OF NATURAL PHONOLOGY AND NATURAL MORPHOLOGY FROM NORTHERN AND ANATOLIAN GREEK DIALECTS......Page 130
REFERENCES......Page 150
DID OLD ENGLISH HAVE A MIDDLE VOICE?......Page 154
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 162
THE VOWEL /a:/ IN ENGLISH......Page 164
REFERENCES......Page 172
FRAMING THE LINGUISTIC ACTION SCENE IN OLD AND PRESENT-DAY ENGLISH: OE CWEþAN, SECGAN, SP(R)ECAN AND PRESENT-DAY ENGLISH SPEAK, TALK, SAY AND TELL COMPARED......Page 174
REFERENCES......Page 195
I. INTRODUCTION......Page 196
II. RULE ADDITION AND LOSS HYPOTHESES......Page 197
III. RULE INTERSECTION AND LEXICAL DIFFUSION HYPOTHESES......Page 202
REFERENCES......Page 205
0. Introduction......Page 208
1.1. Phonetic conditioning......Page 209
1.2. Sound change based on the sound system vs. sound change based on meaningful units......Page 211
2.1. Syntagmatic restrictions......Page 215
2.2. Paradigmatic restrictions......Page 217
REFERENCES......Page 221
CHANCE AND NECESSITY IN DIACHRONIC SYNTAX- WORD ORDER TYPOLOGIES AND THE POSITION OF MODERN PERSIAN RELATIVE CLAUSES......Page 224
REFERENCES......Page 240
1.1. Non linear phonology......Page 242
2.2. Umlaut......Page 248
3. Umlaut in Dutch and German......Page 249
4. Umlaut in Roermond......Page 250
5. Description......Page 254
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 257
DIVERGENT PATTERNS OF WORD ORDER CHANGE IN CONTEMPORARY FRENCH......Page 260
REFERENCES......Page 273
1.0 Introduction......Page 276
1.1 Definition of terms......Page 277
2.0 Post-Nasal Consonants......Page 279
2.1 Aspiration......Page 280
2.2. Ejectivization......Page 281
3.0 Articulatory Modes......Page 284
REFERENCES......Page 288
VELAR SEGMENTS IN OLD ENGLISH AND OLD IRISH......Page 292
REFERENCES......Page 304
ON THE SEMASIOLOGIZATION OF PHONOLOGICAL RULES: THE SEMIOTIC EVOLUTION OF FINNISH CONSONANT GRADATION......Page 306
REFERENCES......Page 315
ANOTHER EXPLANATION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF s BEFORE / IN NORWEGIAN......Page 316
REFERENCES......Page 324
WILHELM SCHERER\'S ZUR GESCHICHTE DER DEUTSCHEN SPRACHEA MILESTONE IN 19TH-CENTURY LINGUISTICS......Page 326
REFERENCES......Page 335
PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN CONSONANTISM: METHODOLOGICAL AND FURTHER TYPOLOGICAL CONCERNS......Page 338
REFERENCES......Page 345
0.0 Introductory observations......Page 348
1.0 Saussure\'s Argument in the \'Mémoire sur le système primitif des voyelles dans les langues indo-européennes\'......Page 354
1.1 Saussure\'s revisions of the PIE vocalic system.......Page 356
2.0 Concluding remarks......Page 365
REFERENCES......Page 367
INDO-EUROPEAN NUMERALS AND THE SEXAGESIMAL SYSTEM......Page 372
REFERENCES......Page 377
ABSOLUTE VS. RELATIVE COMPARISON: TYPOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT......Page 378
REFERENCES......Page 388
1. Type I: Backgrounding within the Predicate......Page 390
1.1. Composition by Juxtaposition......Page 391
1.2. Morphological Compounding......Page 394
2. Type II: Backgrounding within the Clause......Page 395
3. Type III: Backgrounding within Discourse......Page 396
4. Type IV: Classificatory Backgrounding......Page 399
5.1. The Origin of Incorporation......Page 404
5.2. The Development of the Process......Page 405
6.1. Decay at Stage I......Page 406
6.2. Decay at Stage II......Page 407
6.3. Decay at Stage III......Page 408
6.4. Decay at Stage IV......Page 410
7. Revitalization of a System......Page 412
8. Conclusion......Page 417
REFERENCES......Page 418
FOR A DIACHRONY-IN-SYNCHRONY ANALYSIS......Page 420
REFERENCES......Page 431
SOURCES......Page 432
ON THE POSSIBLE CLUSTERS OF mb, nd, AND g IN PROTO-JAPANESE......Page 434
IMPLICATIONS......Page 445
REFERENCES......Page 449
ARE THERE DYSFUNCTIONAL CHANGES ?......Page 452
REFERENCES......Page 463
THE INDO-EUROPEAN ORIGIN OF THE BALTO-SLAVIC -ē- AND -ā- PRETERITE......Page 466
REFERENCES......Page 475
1. A brief historical sketch of the development of-ness and -ity......Page 476
2. On productivity and productiveness......Page 477
3. Productivity from a diachronic perspective......Page 482
4. The creolization hypothesis: support from the lexicon and derivational morphology......Page 487
TEXTS......Page 490
1. Introduction......Page 492
2.1.1. General southern forms.......Page 495
2.2.2. North Carolina.......Page 499
3. Regional division of the area......Page 504
REFERENCES......Page 511
1. Rule ordering......Page 514
3. Dialect geography: the diatopic challenge......Page 516
REFERENCES......Page 521
LE DEVELOPPEMENT D\'UN AUXILIAIRE MODAL, EN YIDDISH: LOZN \'LAISSER\'......Page 524
BIBLIOGRAPHIE......Page 538
CONFRONTATION AND ASSOCIATION......Page 540
REFERENCES......Page 550
THE BIFURC\nATION THEORY OF THE GERMANIC AND GERMAN CONSONANT SHIFTS SYNOPSIS AND SOME FURTHER THOUGHTS......Page 552
REFERENCES......Page 571
PROSODIC STRUCTUREAND THE DEVELOPMENT OF FRENCH SCHWA......Page 574
REFERENCES......Page 584
ON THE ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENTS OF AMERICAN ENGLISH......Page 586
REFERENCES......Page 592
QUELQUES PROBLÈMES DES RECHERCHES ÉTYMOLOGIQUES SUR LES EMPRUNTS LEXICAUX......Page 596
BIBLIOGRAPHIE......Page 608
MORPHOLOGISCHE NATÜRLICHKEIT UNDMORPHOLOGISCHER WANDELZUR VORHERSAGBARKEIT VONSPRACHVERÄNDERUNGEN......Page 612
LITERATURANGABEN......Page 624
SUMMING UP......Page 626
REFERENCES......Page 631
INDEX OF LANGUAGES......Page 632
INDEXOF NAMES......Page 637