Historical linguistics 2007
Subtitle: selected papers from the 18th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montréal, 6-11 August 2007
By: edited by Monique Dufresne, Fernande Dupuis, Etleva Vocaj.
Contributors: Dufresne, Monique.; Dupuis, Fernande.; Vocaj, Etleva.
Series: Current issues in linguistic theory -- v. 308
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Company
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Philadelphia, Pa
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789027248244
Subjects: Historical linguistics -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword & acknowledgements; title: Introduction; title: Part I. Phonology: Middle English vowel length in French loanwords / Ashley L. Burnett; title: Dental fricatives and stops in Germanic: Deriving diachronic Processes from synchronic variation / Bridget Smith; title: Dialect variation and the Dutch diminutive: the role of prosodic templates / Laura Catharine Smith; title: Part II. Morphology, syntax and semantics: On the disappearance of genitive types in Middle English: Objective genitives with nouns of love and fear and the nature of syntactic change / Cynthia L. Allen; title: An asymmetric view on stage II in Jespersen's cycle in the West Germanic languages / Anne Breitbarth; title: Temporal reference and grammaticalization in the Spanish perfect(ive) / Mary T. Copple; title: (Un)-interpretable features and grammaticalization / Viviane Deprez; title: Imperative morphology in diachrony evidence from the Romance languages / Martin Maiden, Andrew Swearingen & Paul O'Neill; title: VO vs V(?)O en français / Christiane Marchello-Nizia; title: On the development of Recipient passives in DO languages: A case study / Chantal Melis & Marcela Flores; title: The emergence of DP in the history of English: The role of the mysterious genitive / Fuyo Osawa; title: A diachronic view of Psychological verbs with Dative Experiencers in Spanish and Romanian / María Luisa Rivero & Constanta Rodica Diaconescu; title: On the loss of the masculine genitive plural in Cypriot Greek: Language contact or internal evolution? / Ioanna Sitaridou & Marina Terkourafi; title: The rise of peripheral modifiers in the noun phrase / Freek Van de Velde; title: Wild variation, random patterns, and uncertain data / Dieter Wanner; title: Part III. Sociolinguistics and dialectology: Le changement linguistique dans la langue orale selon deux recherches sur le terrain séparées d'un siècle / Montserrat Adam-Aulinas; title: Patrons sociolinguistiques: Chez trois générations de locuteurs acadiens / Louise Beaulieu & Wladyslaw Cichocki; title: Change of functions of the first person pronouns in Chinese / Vicky Tzuyin Lai & Zygmunt Frajzyngier; title: Vinderup in real time: A showcase of dialect levelling / Signe Wedel Schøning & Inge Lise Pedersen; title: Variation in real time: A case of sound change in Catalan / Orland Verdú; title: Part IV. Tools and methodology: UNIDIA: A database for deriving diachronic universals / Mahé Ben Hamed & Sébastien Flavier; title: Visualization, validation and seriation: Application to a corpus of medieval texts / Fernande Dupuis & Ludovic Lebart; title: Quantifying linguistic changes: Experiments in Norwegian language history / Helge Sandøy; title: Historical core vocabulary: Spring and/or anchor: On tendencies and mechanisms of language evolution / Valentyna Skybina & Iryna Galutskikh; title: Index of languages & terms; title: Index of subjects & terms.