Andersen Henning, Koerner E.F.K. (Eds.). Historical Linguistics 1987

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1990. — 589 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 66).Papers from the 8th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Lille, August 31-September 4, 1987The volume contains 37 papers originally presented at the 8th International Conference on Historical Linguistics in Lille, France. The papers bring historical data to bear on issues in theoretical linguistics, both descriptive and diachronic or deal with specific questions in the history of individual languages. The theoretical issues range from phonology over morphology and syntax to the lexicon, as well as questions of historical dialectology, language contact, the theory of linguistic change, and problems of comparative reconstruction. The languages discussed are Finno-Ugric and Indo-European, most of the papers dealing with Germanic and Romance languages (especially English and French), but some being devoted to Greek, Celtic, Slavic, and Hittite.The structure of drift - Henning Andersen
Conflicting teleologies: drift and normalization in the history of Icelandic phonology - Kristján Árnason
Language change: cyclical or linear? The case of the Romance future - Bernard H. Bichakjian
Syntactic reconstruction and Finno-Ugric - Lyle Campbell
Case assignment and NP movement in the history of Scandinavian - Jan Terje Faarlund
Domesday Book and Late Old English dialects - Jacek Fisiak
Bilinguisme et interférences: le cas de l’anglais sud-africain - Pascal Gallez
Reanalysing actualization, and actualizing reanalysis - Erica C. García
The rise of om in Middle Dutch infinitive constructions - Marinel Gerritsen
Discourse functions and syntactic change - Anna Giacalone Ramat
Framing the linguistic communication scene: ask vs. acsian and biddan - Louis Goossens
La polysémie de of en vieil anglais et la métaphore spatialisante - Marie-Line Groussier
Le cadre des changements phonétiques dans les langues romanes: mot et ‘syntagme phonétique’ - Catherine Holm
Le rôle du système dans l’évolution d’un verbe en grec ancien - Bernard Jacquinod
Whatever happened to the ablaut nouns in English — and why did it not happen in German? - Dieter Kastovsky
Sources négligées dans l’histoire du vocabulaire: les dictionnaires bilingues du seizième siècle - Douglas A. Kibbee
Shall or will ? Choice of the variant form in Early Modern English, British and American - Merja Kytö
Le développement de ce que en français et l’évolution du relatif- interrogatif-exclamatif - Jean-Marcel Léard
L’enfer de brumes et marais dans la tradition germano-celtique. Un problème mythologique et linguistique indo-européen - H. Le Bourdelles
The structure and development of possessive noun phrases in Hittite - Silvia Luraghi
The ghost of the agent in Romance - Maria M. Manoliu
Non-adjacency in geminate structure: an historical perspective - Jean-Pierre Y. Montreuil
Modes of inference and the gradual/rapid issue: suggestions from the English modal - Stephen J. Nagle
A case of Proto-Indo-European allomorphy: the instrument noun suffix *-tlom and its variants - Birgit Anette Olsen
Ouir, entendre, comprendre: une vue psychoméchanique sur le renouvellement du lexique - Jacqueline Picoche
Neutralisation sémantique et marquage fonctionnel: à propos de l’évolution de certains emplois de celui et de ce en français - Michel Pierrard
Romance comparative grammar and linguistic change - Rebecca Posner
Local and global change in word formation - Amanda V. Pounder
Germanic Verschärfung: tying up loose ends - Jens Elmegård Rasmussen
Mécanismes et nature du changement syntaxique: le cas de la phrase complexe en indo-européen - Andre Rousseau
The unaccusative hypothesis and the history of the perfect auxiliary in Germanic and Romance - Thomas F. Shannon
Functional differentiation in the emerging English standard language: the evolution of a morphological discourse and style marker - Dieter Stein
Verb phrase conjunction in Old English - Robert P. Stockwell and Donka Minkova
Évolution droite ou sinueuse: les palatales du français - Henriette Walter
On the history of grounding markers in English narrative: style or typology? - Brita Wårvik
Cognitive Grammar and Kuryłowicz’s laws of analogy - Margaret E. Winters
Semantic change in Romance words for “cut” - Roger Wright