Historical linguistics 2007 : selected papers from the 18th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, 6-11 August 2007 / edited by Monique Dufresne, Fernande Dupuis, Etleva Vocaj.

"For more than three decades, the International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL) has been characterized by diversity, both in terms of the theoretical frameworks used by its researchers and the wide variety of languages that are analyzed. ICHL 18, which took place at the Universite d...

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Corporate Author:	International Conference on Historical Linguistics Montréal, Québec
Other Authors:	Dufresne, Monique, Dupuis, Fernande, Vocaj, Etleva
Format:	eBook
Language:	English French
Published:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2009.
Series:	Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 308.
Subjects:	Historical linguistics > Congresses. FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Ancient Languages. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Historical & Comparative. Historical linguistics Conference papers and proceedings
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Table of Contents:

Foreword & acknowledgements
Introduction
pt. I. Phonology
Middle English vowel length in French loanwords / Ashley L. Burnett
Dental fricatives and stops in Germanic : deriving diachronic processes from synchronic variation / Bridget Smith
Dialect variation and the Dutch diminutive : the role of prosodic templates / Laura Catharine Smith
pt. 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
An asymmetric view on stage II in Jespersen's cycle in the West Germanic languages / Anne Breitbarth
Temporal reference and grammaticalization in the Spanish perfect(ive) / Mary T. Copple
(Un)-interpretable features and grammaticalization / Viviane Deprez
Imperative morphology in diachrony evidence from the Romance languages / Martin Maiden, Andrew Swearingen & Paul O'Neill
VO vs V(
) O en français / Christiane Marchello-Nizia
On the development of recipient passives in DO languages : a case study / Chantal Melis & Marcela Flores
The emergence of DP in the history of English : the role of the mysterious genitive / Fuyo Osawa
A diachronic view of psychological verbs with dative experiencers in Spanish and Romanian / María Luisa Rivero & Constanta Rodica Diaconescu
On the loss of the masculine genitive plural in Cypriot Greek : language contact or internal evolution? / Ioanna Sitaridou & Marina Terkourafi
The rise of peripheral modifiers in the noun phrase / Freek Van de Velde
Wild variation, random patterns, and uncertain data / Dieter Wanner
pt. III. Sociolinguistics and dialectology
Le changement linguistique dans la langue orale selon deux recherches sur le terrain séparées d'un siècle / Montserrat Adam-Aulinas
Patrons sociolinguistiques chez trois générations de locuteurs acadiens / Louise Beaulieu & Wladyslaw Cichocki
Change of functions of the first person pronouns in Chinese / Vicky Tzuyin Lai & Zygmunt Frajzyngier
Vinderup in real time : a showcase of dialect levelling / Signe Wedel Schøning & Inge Lise Pedersen
Variation in real time : a case of sound change in Catalan / Orland Verdú
pt. IV. Tools and methodology
UNIDIA : a database for deriving diachronic universals / Mahé Ben Hamed & Sébastien Flavier
Visualization, validation and seriation : application to a corpus of medieval texts / Fernande Dupuis & Ludovic Lebart
Quantifying linguistic changes : experiments in Norwegian language history / Helge Sandøy
Historical core vocabulary : spring and/or anchor : on tendencies and mechanisms of language evolution / Valentyna Skybina & Iryna Galutskikh
Index of languages and terms
Index of subjects and terms.

Historical linguistics 2007 : selected papers from the 18th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, 6-11 August 2007 / edited by Monique Dufresne, Fernande Dupuis, Etleva Vocaj.

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