Dufresne Monique, Dupuis Fernande, Vocaj Etleva (Eds.). Historical Linguistics 2007

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2009. — 329 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 308).Selected papers from the 18th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, 6–11 August 2007For 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 Université du Québec à Montréal 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.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 SmithMorphology, 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 Déprez
Imperative morphology in diachrony evidence from the Romance languages - Martin Maiden, Andrew Swearingen and 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 and 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 and Constanta Rodica Diaconescu
On the loss of the masculine genitive plural in Cypriot Greek: Language contact or internal evolution? - Ioanna Sitaridou and Marina Terkourafi
The rise of peripheral modifiers in the noun phrase - Freek Van de Velde
Wild variation, random patterns, and uncertain data* - Dieter WannerSociolinguistics 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 and Wladyslaw Cichocki
Change of functions of the first person pronouns in Chinese - Vicky Tzuyin Lai and Zygmunt Frajzyngier
Vinderup in real time: A showcase of dialect levelling - Signe Wedel Schøning and Inge Lise Pedersen
Variation in real time: A case of sound change in Catalan - Orland VerdùTools and Methodology
UNIDIA: A database for deriving diachronic universals - Mahé Ben Hamed and Sébastien Flavier
Visualization, validation and seriation: Application to a corpus of medieval texts - Fernande Dupuis and Ludovic Lebart
Quantifying linguistic changes: Experiments in Norwegian language history - Helge Sandoy
Historical core vocabulary: Spring and/or anchor: On tendencies and mechanisms of language evolution - Valentina Skybina and Iryna Galutskikh