: selected papers from the 18th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, 6-11 August 2007
\ edited by Monique Dufresne, Fernande Dupuis, Etleva Vocaj.
; Philadelphia
: John Benjamins Pub. Co.
, 2009.
x, 311 p.
:ill., maps
;25 cm.
Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science, Series IV. Current issues in linguistic theory,
; v. 308
,0304-0763 ;
Index
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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 fran�cais / 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 / Mar�ia 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 s�epar�ees d'un si�ecle / Montserrat Adam-Aulinas -- Patrons sociolinguistiques chez trois g�en�erations 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 Sch�ning & Inge Lise Pedersen -- Variation in real time : a case of sound change in Catalan / Orland Verd�u -- pt. IV. Tools and methodology -- UNIDIA : a database for deriving diachronic universals / Mah�e Ben Hamed & S�ebastien 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 Sand�y -- 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.