Historical linguistics 2003 : selected papers from the 16th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Copenhagen, 11-15 August 2003 /

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Meeting name:International Conference on Historical Linguistics (16th : 2003 : Copenhagen, Denmark)
Imprint:Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., 2005.
Description:ix, 319 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 257
Subject:
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6015781
Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other authors / contributors:Fortescue, Michael D.
ISBN:9027247714 (Eur.)
1588115860 (U.S. : hb : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • -1. Prelim pages
  • 0. Table of contents
  • 1. Preface
  • 2. Typological reflections on loss of morphological case in Middle Low German and in the Mainland Scandinavian languages
  • 3. Ethnoreconstruction in Kok-Papónk
  • 4. Rraising verbs vs. auxiliaries
  • 5. On the origin of the final unstressed [i] in Brazilian and other varieties of Portuguese
  • 6. Socio-historical evidence for copula variability in rural Southern America
  • 7. Main Stress Left in Early Middle English
  • 8. Some dialectal, sociolectal and communicative aspects of word order variation and change in Late Middle English
  • 9. Using Universal Principles of Phonetic Qualitative Reduction in Grammaticalization to explain the Old Spanish Shift from ge to se
  • 10. The\origin of transitive auxiliary verbs in Chukotko-Kamchatkan
  • 11. Grammaticalisation and Latin
  • 12. Paths of semantic extension
  • 13. Vanishing discourse markers
  • 14. From ditransitive to monotransitive structure in the history of the Spanish language. Reanalysis of objects
  • 15. Reflexive intensification in Spanish
  • 16. Modern Swedish bara
  • 17. Nordic prefix loss and metrical stress theory with particular reference to ga - and bi -
  • 18. The\origin and development of lär , a modal epistemic in Swedish
  • 19. The\development of the Spanish verb ir to an auxiliary of voice
  • 20. The\development of continuous aspect
  • 21. Index