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.

In English; two essays in French.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

"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 du Quebec a Montreal in August 2007, was no exception to the continuation of this tradition. The articles in the present volume encompass many different approaches and a wide range of theories, including grammaticalization, generative approaches to linguistic change and variation, reanalysis, the use of analogy, and the interplay between internal and external factors. The volume is divided into four sections, dealing with phonology, with syntax, morphology, and semantics, with external factors in linguistic change, and with tools and methodologies. This way, this volume aims to be a reflection of the diverse trends in current historical linguistic study."--Jacket.

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.

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