Studies in Descriptive and Historical Linguistics

STUDIES IN
DESCRIPTIVE AND HISTORICAL
LINGUISTICS
FESTSCHRIFT FOR
WINFRED P. LEHMANN......Page 2
Editorial page......Page 3
Title page......Page 4
Copyright page......Page 5
FOREWORD......Page 8
Table of contents......Page 10
WINFRED P. LEHMANN: LIST OF PUBLICATIONS 1938-1976......Page 12
ESSAYS......Page 14
ARTICLES: APPLIED LINGUISTICS......Page 21
REVIEWS......Page 23
PART I: STUDIES IN DESCRIPTIVE LINGUISTICS......Page 30
DELOCUTIVE VERBS IN DYIRBAL......Page 32
APPENDIX......Page 47
REFERENCES......Page 48
MULTIPLE SD'S FOR UNAMBIGUOUS SENTENCES: CONTINUUMS......Page 50
1a. VERB PLUS PARTICLE AREA......Page 51
1b. VERB PLUS PREPOSITION AREA......Page 60
1c. THE PARTICLE-PREPOSITION CONTINUUM......Page 63
1d. CLEAR CASE VERSUS GENERAL GRAMMAR......Page 64
1e. OTHER GRAMMATICAL AREAS......Page 68
2a. VERB PLUS PARTICLE AREA......Page 71
2b. VERB PLUS PREPOSITION AREA......Page 73
2c. A VERBAL AREA......Page 74
FINAL REMARKS......Page 78
REFERENCES......Page 79
REMARKS ON THE SEPARATION BETWEEN SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS......Page 82
NOTES......Page 91
REFERENCES......Page 92
'SEXISM' AND THE NORWEGIAN LANGUAGE......Page 94
REFERENCES......Page 104
MACHINE TRANSLATION AND ABSTRACT TERMINOLOGY......Page 106
THE FOURFOLD FACULTY OF LANGUAGE......Page 107
SEMANTIC TRANSLATION......Page 111
REMARKS......Page 117
REFERENCES......Page 118
LITERARY MEANINGS--COMPLEX OR SIMPLE?......Page 120
NOTES......Page 134
SOME ASPECTS OF LEXICAL SYNONYMY IN CONTEMPORARY PERSIAN......Page 136
NOTES......Page 153
REFERENCES......Page 155
THE HUMBOLDTIAN TREND IN LINGUISTICS......Page 156
NOTES......Page 164
REFERENCES......Page 165
ON THE INADEQUACY OF TYPE-3 AND TYPE-2 GRAMMARS FOR HUMAN LANGUAGES......Page 170
NOTES......Page 180
REFERENCES......Page 182
FALSE COGNATES IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH......Page 184
2. Jackendoff's analysis.......Page 198
3. The Predictive Power of the MPR......Page 200
4. The Proposed Remedy for Overprediction in MS......Page 202
5. On solving the overprediction problem.......Page 204
6. Problem of the Underprediction of the MPR.......Page 206
7. Performative solution for the third person data.......Page 209
8. Factive and Scope......Page 211
9. Specificness and reference.......Page 212
10. Conclusion.......Page 215
NOTES......Page 217
REFERENCES......Page 218
LANGUAGE IN A SEXIST SOCIETY......Page 220
RULE BREAKING IN ENGLISH SPELLINGA STUDY OF FINAL E......Page 228
NOTES......Page 240
LINGUISTICS AS A PRACTICAL SCIENCE......Page 246
REFERENCES......Page 272
PART II: STUDIES IN HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS......Page 276
TYPOLOGICAL NOTES ON IRISH WORD-ORDER......Page 278
NOTES......Page 285
REFERENCES......Page 289
1 A SIMPLE EXAMPLE......Page 294
2 SOME BACKGROUND NOTIONS......Page 296
3 VERBS OF MOVEMENT......Page 300
4 THE RELEVANCE OF THE ADDRESSEE IN DEMONSTRATIVE SYSTEMS......Page 302
5 VISIBILITY AS A RELEVANT FEATURE IN DEMONSTRATIVE SYSTEMS......Page 304
6 COMPASS ORIENTATION IN DEMONSTRATIVE SYSTEMS......Page 306
7 DUAL AND TRIAL IN PERSONAL PRONOUN SYSTEMS......Page 307
8 CONCLUSION......Page 309
REFERENCES......Page 310
THE URALO-YUKAGHIR FOCUS SYSTEM: A PROBLEM IN REMOTE GENETIC RELATIONSHIP......Page 312
REFERENCES......Page 325
'SOMETHING STOLEN': A SEMITIC PARTICIPLE AND AN INDO-EUROPEAN NEUTER SUBSTANTIVE......Page 328
1. The Root, the Affix, and the Accented Vowel......Page 329
2. The Law of Stolen Goods in Prehistoric Times......Page 330
3. From Participle to Substantive......Page 333
4. Feminine and Neuter Gender......Page 340
5. The Relation of......Page 346
Bibliographical References......Page 349
WHY AP-ISH BUT WORM-Y?......Page 352
NOTES......Page 372
REFERENCES......Page 374
BARTHOLOMAE'S LAW AND AN IE ROOT STRUCTURE CONSTRAINT......Page 376
NOTES......Page 397
REFERENCES......Page 399
SECONDARY STRESS IN GERMANIC ALLITERATIVE VERSE......Page 404
REFERENCES......Page 414
APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF VEDIC RFLIGION......Page 416
REFERENCES......Page 424
LEXICAL RESTRUCTURING VERSUS RULE ADDITION: A CASE STUDY IN DIALECT DIFFERENTIATION......Page 428
REFERENCES......Page 438
A NOTE ON HIPPOCRATES......Page 440
REFERENCES......Page 445
HISTORICAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR LEXICAL VARIATION IN CYPRIOT AND MODERN STANDARD GREEK......Page 448
REFERENCES......Page 455
THE SYNCHRONIC DESCRIPTION AND HISTORICAL CHANGE......Page 456
REFERENCES......Page 466
0. INTRODUCTION.......Page 468
0.1 The Role Of The Comparative Method.......Page 470
2.0 METHODOLOGY......Page 472
2.1 Diagnostic Isogloss Model.......Page 473
2.2 The Diagnostic Model And The Trinidad Hindoostani (TH).......Page 475
3.0 THE HOME OF THE EAST INDIANS OF TRINIDAD IN INDIA.......Page 476
4.0 THE ROLE OF MORPHOLOGICAL COMPARISON.......Page 477
4.1 Comparison Of The Dialeots of 'Hindi'.......Page 478
4.2 The Results Of The Morphological Comparison: Tables III-VIII.......Page 479
5.0 THE RELATION BETWEEN TH AND BIHARI.......Page 480
6.0 THE HOME OF TEE INDIAN IMMIGRANTS OF TRINIDAD IN INDIA......Page 481
7.0 CONCLUSION.......Page 482
NOTES......Page 483
REFERENCES......Page 490
HILDEBRANDSLIED 35b: DAT IH DIR IT NU BI HULDI GIBU......Page 492
REFERENCES......Page 496
ON THE NATIVIZATION OF MODERN HEBREW AND THE ROLE OF CHILDREN IN THIS PROCESS......Page 498
NOTES......Page 507
REFERENCES......Page 508
INDEX OF NAMES......Page 510