Actualization : Linguistic Change in Progress. Papers from a workshop held at the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, B.C., 14 August 1999.

Actualization : Linguistic Change in Progress. Papers from a workshop held at the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, B.C., 14 August 1999.

This collection of papers consolidates the observation that linguistic change typically is actualized step by step: any structural innovation being introduced, accepted, and generalized, over time, in one grammatical environment after another, in a progression that can be understood by reference to...

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Main Author: Andersen, Henning
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2001.
Series:Current Issues in Linguistic Theory Ser. ; no. 219.
Subjects:
Linguistic change > Congresses.
Markedness (Linguistics) > Congresses.
Linguistic change
Markedness (Linguistics)
Conference papers and proceedings
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Table of Contents:
  • ACTUALIZATION; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; PREFACE; Table of contents; INTRODUCTION; MARKEDNESS AND THE THEORY OF LINGUISTIC CHANGE; PATTERNS OF RESTITUTION OF SOUND CHANGE; THE ROLE OF MARKEDNESS IN THE ACTUATION AND ACTUALIZATION OF LINGUISTIC CHANGE; ON THE ACTUALIZATION OF THE PASSIVE-TO-ERGATIVE SHIFT IN PRE-ISLAMIC INDIA; THE USE OF ADDRESS PRONOUNS IN SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS AND SONNETS; ACTUALIZATION PATTERNS IN GRAMMATICALIZATION: FROM CLAUSE TO LOCATIVE MORPHOLOGY IN NORTHERN IROQUOIAN; FROM LATIN TO MODERN FRENCH: ACTUALIZATION AND MARKEDNESS.
  • Markedness, causation, and linguistic change: a semiotic perspectivemarkedness, functionality, and perseveration in the actualization of a morphosyntactic change; actualization and the (uni)directionality of change; general index.

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