Actualization
Subtitle: linguistic change in progress
By: edited by Henning Andersen.
Contributors: Andersen, Henning, 1934-; International Conference on Historical Linguistics (14th : 1999 : Vancouver, B.C.)
Series: Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science.; v. 219
Publisher: J. Benjamins; John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: Linguistic change -- Congresses.; Markedness (Linguistics) -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Papers from a workshop held at the 14th annual International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, B.C., 14 August, 1999.
Table of contents: title: Position paper : markedness and the theory of change / Henning Andersen; title: Patterns of restitution of sound change / Kristin Bakken; title: The role of markedness in the actuation and actualization of linguistic change / Alexander Bergs and Dieter Stein; title: On the actualization of the passive-to-ergative shift in pre-Islamic India / Vit Bubenik; title: The use of address pronouns in early modern English / Ulrich Busse; title: Actualization patterns in grammaticalization : from clause to locative morphology in Northern Iroquoian / Marianne Mithun; title: From Latin to modern French / Lene Schøsler; title: Markedness, causation, and linguistic change /     Michael Shapiro; title: Markedness, functionality, and perseveration in the actualization of a morphosyntactic change / John Charles Smith; title: Actualization and the (uni)directionality of change / Henning Andersen.