Andersen Henning (Ed.). Actualization: Linguistic Change in Progress

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2001. — 259 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 219).Papers from a workshop held at the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, B.C., 14 August 1999This collection of papers consolidates the observation that linguistic change typically is actualized step by step: any structural innovation being introduced, accepted, and generalized, over time, in one grammatical environment after another, in a progression that can be understood by reference to the markedness values and the ranking of the conditioning features. The Introduction to the volume and a chapter by Henning Andersen clarify the theoretical bases for this observation, which is exemplified and discussed in separate chapters by Kristin Bakken, Alexander Bergs and Dieter Stein, Vit Bubenik, Ulrich Busse, Marianne Mithun, Lene Schøsler, and John Charles Smith in the light of data from the histories of Norwegian, English, Hindi, Northern Iroquoian, and Romance. A final chapter by Michael Shapiro adds a philosophical perspective. The papers were first presented in a workshop on “Actualization Patterns in Linguistic Change” at the XIV International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, B.C. in 1999.Position paper: Markedness and the theory of change - Henning Andersen
Patterns of restitution of sound change - Kristin Bakken
The role of markedness in the actuation and actualization of linguistic change - Alexander Bergs and Dieter Stein
On the actualization of the passive-to-ergative shift in Pre-Islamic India - Vit Bubenik
The use of address pronouns in Early Modern English - Ulrich Busse
Actualization patterns in grammaticalization: From clause to locative morphology in Northern Iroquoian - Marianne Mithun
From Latin to Modern French: Actualization and markedness - Lene Schøsler
Markedness, causation, and linguistic change: A semiotic perspective - Michael Shapiro
Markedness, functionality, and perseveration in the actualization of a morphosyntactic change - John Charles Smith
Actualization and the (uni)directionality of change - Henning Andersen