International Conference on Historical Linguistics (22nd : 2015 : Naples, Italy)
Title:
Historical linguistics 2015 : selected papers from the 22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Naples, 27-31 July 2015 / edited by Michela Cennamo, Claudia Fabrizio, with the assistance oif Renato Parlato.
Publisher:
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
viii, 639 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Introduction / Michela Cennamo and Claudia Fabrizio -- Part I. Phonology: 1. Old Irish consonant quality re-examined / Hans Henrich Hock -- 2. The use of the past to explain the past: Roman grammarians and the collapse of quantity / Marco Mancini -- 3. Pertinacity in loanwords: Same underlying systems, different outputs / Aditi Lahiri and Holly Kennard -- Part II. Morphology: 4. Ablaut in Armenian nasal declension / Giancarlo Schirru -- 5. Gender and declension mismatches in West Nordic / Ivar Berg -- 6. The development of gender and countability effects in German ung- and English ing-nominals / Martina Werner and Gianina Iordachioaia -- 7. Some new evidence on the rise of Italian -ata nouns / Claudia Fabrizio -- 8. Diachrony and morphological equilibrium: The case of the southern New Indo-Aryan verb / Paolo Milizia -- 9. Anti-relevant, contra-iconic but system-adequate: On unexpected inflectional changes / Livio Gaeta -- Part III. Morphosyntax: 10. Impersonal passives and the suffix -r in the Indo-European languages / Francesco Rovai -- 11. The Old English verbal prefixes for- and ge-: Their effects on the transitivity of morphological causative pairs / Esaúl Ruiz Narbona -- Part IV. Syntax: 12. Enclitic -(m)a 'but' / -(y)a 'and' in Hittite: Losing extraordinary syntactic behavior / Andrei V. Sideltsev -- 13. State representation and dynamic processes in Homeric Greek: The case of the aorist in -hn / Domenica Romagno -- 14. The actualization of language change: Perfect and middle in Indo-European languages / Romano Lazzeroni -- 15. Early Indo-European dialects and innovations of aspect systems / Jadranka Gvozdanovic -- 16. Perfecting the notion of Sprachbund: Perfects and resultatives in the 'Stratified Convergence Zones' of Europe / Bridget Drinka -- 17. Parameters in the development of Romance perfective auxiliary selection / Adam Ledgeway -- 18. Adverbs and the left periphery of non-finite clauses in Old Spanish / Teresa María Rodríguez Ramalle and Cristina Matute -- Part V. Diachronic typology: 19. The sources of antipassive constructions: A cross-linguistic survey / Andrea Sansò -- 20. A diachronic account of converbal constructions in Old Rajasthani / Krzysztof Stronski, Joanna Tokaj and Saartje Verbeke -- Part VI. Semantics and pragmatics: 21. The locative alternation with spray/load verbs in Old English / Katarzyna Sówka-Pietraszewska -- 22. Penetration of French-origin lexis in Middle English occupational domains / Richard Ingham, Louise Sylvester and Imogen Marcus -- 23. Meaning change from superlatives to definite descriptions: A semantic approach / Jun Chen and Dawei Jin -- 24. Towards diachronic word classes universals / Matthias Gerner -- 25. Grammaticalizing the face (as well as the hands) in a first generation sign language: The case of Zinacantec Family Homesign / John B. Haviland -- Part VII. Language contact, variation and diffusion: 26. Linguistic divergence under contact / Nicholas Evans -- 27. Roots and branches of variation across dialects of English / Sali A. Tagliamonte -- 28. Waves in computer simulations of linguistic diffusion / Luzius Thöny.
Summary:
The collection of articles presented in this volume addresses a number of general theoretical, methodological and empirical issues in the field of Historical Linguistics, in different levels of analysis and on different themes: (i) phonology, (ii) morphology, (iii) morphosyntax, (iv) syntax, (v) diachronic typology, (vi) semantics and pragmatics, and (vii) language contact, variation and diffusion. The topics discussed, often in a comparative perspective, feature a variety of languages and language families and cover a wide range of research areas. Novel analyses and often new diachronic data - also from less known and under-investigated languages - are provided to the debate on the principles, mechanisms, paths and models of language change, as well as the relationship between synchronic variation and diachrony. The volume is of interest to scholars of different persuasions working on all aspects of language change.
Series:
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 0304-0763 ; 348
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