Full Description
This volume presents a selection of papers from the 6th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL), which was held in 1983, in Poznań, Poland.
Contents
1. Preface; 2. List of participants; 3. Conference programme; 4. Divergence and convergence in linguistic evolution (by Birnbaum, Henrik); 5. Areal linguistics and its implications for historical linguistics (by Campbell, Lyle); 6. Paradigm economy in Latin nouns (by Carstairs-McCarthy, Andrew D.); 7. Ablaut: a phoenix in the history of Afrikaans (by Conradie, C. Jac); 8. An analysis and synthesis in sound change (by Danchev, Andrei); 9. On the diachrony of subtractive poerations: evidence for semiotically based models of natural phonology and natural morphology from northern anatolien greek dialects (by Dressler, Wolfgang U.); 10. Did old English have a middle voice? (by Fraser, Thomas H.K.); 11. The vowel /a:/ in English (by Gburek, Hubert); 12. Framing the linguistic actions scene in Old and Present-day English: CWEpAN, SECGAN, SP(R)ECAN and Present-day English SPEAK, TALK, SAY and TELL compared (by Goossens, Louis); 13. Lexical restructuring: rule loss versus rule intersection; evidence from Italian (by de Grandis, Rita); 14. Theories of sound change fail if they try predict too much (by Gvozdanovic, Jadranka); 15. Chance and necessity in diachronic syntax - word order typologies and the position of modern Persian relative clauses (by Haider, Hubert); 16. Umlaut as a harmony process (by Hamans, Camiel S.J.N.); 17. Divergent patterns of word prder in contemporary French (by Harris, Martin B.); 18. Articulatory modes and typological universals: the puzzle of Bantu ejectives ans aspirates (by Herbert, Robert K.); 19. Velar segments in Old English and Old Irish (by Hickey, Raymond); 20. On the semasiologization of phonological rules: the semiotic evolution of Finnish consonant gradation (by Holman, Eugene); 21. Another explanation for the development of s before l in Norwegian (by Jahr, Ernst Hakon); 22. Wilhelm Scherer's Zur geschichte der deutschen Sprache: a milestone in 19th-century linguistics (by Jankowsky, Kurt R.); 23. Proto-Indo-European consonantism: methodological and further typological concerns (by Joseph, Brian D.); 24. The place of Saussure's Memoire in the development of historical linguistics (by Koerner, E.F.K.); 25. Indo-European numerals and the sexagesimal system (by Manczak, Witold); 26. Absolute versus relative comparison: typology and development (by Markey, Thomas); 27. Diachronic morphologization: the circumstances surrounding the birth, growth and decline of noun incorporation (by Mithun, Marianne); 28. For a diachrony-in-synchrony analysis (by Nagucka, Ruta); 29. On the possible clusters of mb, nd, and ng in Proto- Japanese (by Peng, Fred C.C.); 30. Are there dysfunctional changes? (by Giacalone Ramat, Anna); 31. The Indo-European origin of the Balti Slavic - e - and - a- preterite (by Rasmussen, Jens Elmegard); 32. Variability in word formation patterns and productivity in the American South (by Schneider, Edgar W.); 33. Rule ordering and the dynamics of diatopic language variation (by Taeldeman, Johan); 34. Le developpement d'un auxiliaire modal en yiddish: lozn 'laiser' (by Taube, Moshe); 35. Confrontation and association (by Traugott, Elizabeth Closs); 36. The bifurcation theory of the Germanic and German consonant shifts: synopsis and some further thoughts (by Vennemann, Theo); 37. Prosodic structures and the development of French schwa (by Verluyten, S. Paul); 38. On the origins and developments of American English (by Viereck, Wolfgang); 39. Quelques problemes des recherche etymologiques sur les emprunts lexicaux (by Walczak, Bogdan); 40. Morphologische Naturlichkeit und morphologischer Wandel. Zur vorhersagbarkeit von sprachveranderungen (by Wurzel, Wolfgang Ullrich); 41. Anders Ahlqvist: Summing up; 42. Index of languages; 43. Index of names
