Historical Linguistics 2001: Selected Papers from the 15th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Melbourne, 13-17 August 2001Barry J. Blake, Kate Burridge, Jo Taylor This is a selection of papers from the 15th International Conference on Historical Linguistics held in Melbourne 13-17 August 2001, hosted by the Linguistics Program at La Trobe University. The papers range from the general theoretical to the study of particular languages and embrace most areas of linguistics, particularly morpho-syntax. |
Contents
Grammaticalization and the historical development of the genitive | 21 |
Lyle Campbell Hennele Forsberg | 25 |
The transition from early to modern Portuguese | 59 |
Shifting temporal categories in | 87 |
Word order change in Nordic | 129 |
Evidence from the Finnic | 143 |
On degrammaticalization | 163 |
Process inhibition in historical phonology | 181 |
The development of some Indonesian pronominal systems | 237 |
Morphological reconstruction as an etymological method | 271 |
The short vowel shift | 293 |
The rise of IPs in the History of English | 321 |
Case studies on Finnish | 339 |
Borrowing as a tool for grammatical optimization in the history | 363 |
Early Nordic language history and modern runology | 391 |
On the reflexes of ProtoGermanic | 417 |
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adjectives Afrikaans Alyawarr Amsterdam Anmatyerr Arandic Arandic languages Arrernte Austronesian auxiliary Bybee Cambridge clauses clitic clitic pronoun cognate complement construction context Danish dative degrammaticalization diachronic dialects discussed element English environments epistemic ergative example exaptation factors Finnic Finnish functional categories geminate genetic Genitive German grammatical grammaticalization Greek HGCS Historical Linguistics Indonesian languages infinitival inflection inhibition innovation Intransitive involved Kaytetye languages Latin lenition lexical main verb marker marking meaning metaphorical metonymic modal modern morphological Ngarluma Nichols nominal noun Nyamal occur Panyjima participle passive patterns perfect periphrastic phonetic phonological plural position possible potential mood pragmatic prefixes preposition present pronominal forms pronouns Proto Extra-Formosan reconstruction refer reflexes relevant Runic segments semantic sentence structures sound-change spellings spread zones strong inflection suffix syntactic syntax tense tion Transitive Traugott trns two-transitive system typological Undergoer University Press verbal vowel shift Western Arrernte word order