The International Conference on Historical Linguistics is the main conference for specialists in language change, and the 2013 conference in Oslo drew more than 300 participants, with 182 papers presented in the general session. The 16 papers selected for inclusion in this volume from the general session of ICHL 2013 not only provide a clear picture of the state of the art in various subfields of historical linguistics but also present recent insights in diachronic phonology, typology, morphology and morphosyntax. The languages and families covered include English, German, Scandinavian, French, Occitan, Portuguese, Sardinian, Spanish, Ancient Greek, Old Japanese and Austronesian. The volume will be useful to any linguist with an interest in diachronic matters as well as general linguistic theory.
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1. Introduction (by Haug, Dag T.T.); 2. Phonology; 3. A Phonological motivation behind the diatonic stress shift in Modern English (by Hotta, Ryuichi); 4. Vowel reduction in verbs in King Alfred's Pastoral Care (by Johnsen, Sverre Stausland); 5. The development of early Middle English o: Spelling evidence (by Stenbrenden, Gjertrud Flermoen); 6. The diachronic development of stod and tonal accent in North Germanic (by Wetterlin, Allison); 7. The evolution of the (alveolo)palatal lateral consonant in Spanish and Portuguese (by Zampaulo, Andre); 8. Diachronic typology; 9. Evaluating prehistoric and early historic linguistic contacts (by Gvozdanovic, Jadranka); 10. Patterns in the diffusion of nomenclature systems: Australian subsections in comparison to European days of the week (by Koch, Harold); 11. Morphology; 12. Morphological evidence for the paradigmatic status of infinitives in French and Occitan (by Bach, Xavier); 13. Constructional change at the interface of cognition, culture, and language use: A diachronic corpus study of German nominalization patterns (by Hartmann, Stefan); 14. Morphosyntax; 15. Stages in deflexion and the Norwegian dative (by Berg, Ivar); 16. Differential Object Marking in Old Japanese: A corpus-based study (by Frellesvig, Bjarke); 17. The grammaticalization of progressive constructions with a focus on the English progressive (by Killie, Kristin); 18. Hate and anger, love and desire: The construal of emotions in Homeric Greek (by Luraghi, Silvia); 19. The argument indexing of early Austronesian verbs: A reconstructional myth? (by Ross, Malcolm D.); 20. The syntax of mood constructions in Old Japanese: A corpus-based study (by Russell, Kerri L.); 21. Medieval Sardinian: New evidence for syntactic change from Latin to Romance (by Wolfe, Sam); 22. Index
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9789027248534
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2015-10-01
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John Benjamins Publishing Co
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715 gr
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