Ramat Anna Giacalone, Carruba Onofrio, Bernini Giuliano (Eds.). Papers from the 7th International Conference on Historical Linguistics

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1987. — 689 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 48).These papers, deriving from the 7th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL) in Pavia in 1984, provide an overview of the current status of research in this field. They clearly show that new issues are emerging in the theory of linguistic change which tend to incorporate non-autonomous principles like naturalness in phonetic processes, the influence of socio-cultural settings and discourse pragmatics.Gothic obstruents: the limits of reconstruction - John M. Anderson
Structure de l’énoncé indo-européen - Françoise Bader
Il s’en va où le français, et pourquoi? - Joëlle Bailard
Attempting the reconstruction of negotion patterns in PIE - Giuliano Bernini
Structure and origin of the “narrative” imperfect - Pier Marco Bertinetto
The evolution of word order: A paedomorphic explanation - Bernard H. Bichakjian
The evolution of future meaning - Joan L. Bybee and William Pagliuca
Syntactic change and the lexicon - Theodora Bynon
Die syntax der ältesten lateinischen Prosa - Gualtiero Calboli
Diachronic evidence and the affix-clitic distinction - Andrew D. Carstairs-McCarthy
The syllable and phonological strength: Gradient loss of gemination in Corsican - Thomas D. Cravens
Diachronic semantic processes in the middel voice - William A. Croft, Hava Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot and Suzanne Kemmer
Drift and selective mechanisms in morphological change: the Eastern nilotic case - Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
The diachronic relationship of morphology and syntax - Dorothy Disterheft
Old English þa, temporal chains, and narrative structure - Nils Erik Enkvist and Brita Wårvik
The establishment of “by” to denote agency in Emglish passive constructions - Thomas H.K. Fraser
From Indo-European perfect to Slavic perfect to Slavic preterite - Herbert Galton
On doing comparative reconstruction with genetically unrelated languages - John Harris
Α(ἰ)εί and the prehistory of Greek noun accentuation - Henry M. Hoenigswald
The instability of peripheral /e./, /ø./, and /o./ in Dutch lects - Cor Hoppenbrouwers
Structuralism and diachrony: the development of the indefinite article in English - Paul J. Hopper and Janice Martin
On methodology in syntactic reconstruction: reconstructing inter-clause syntax in prehistoric Indo-European - Robert J. Jeffers
Considerazioni sulla cronologia relativa dei mutamenti fonetici - Romano Lazzeroni
Time - Winfred P. Lehmann
Auxiliary verbs in the universal theory of language change - Helmut Lüdtke
Patterns of case syncretism in Indo-European languages - Silvia Luraghi
Integration of phonosymbolism with other categories of language change - Yakov Malkiel
The grammaticalization of social relationship: the origin of number to encode deference - Derry L. Malsch
From conversational to conventional implicature: the romanian pronouns of identity and their substitutes - Maria M. Manoliu
Note su /s/ interconsonantica nei dialetti greci antichi - Celestina Milani
The prosodic character of early schwa deletion in English - Donka Minkova
Articulatory evolution - William Pagliuca and Richard Mowrey
Creolization and syntactic change in Romance - Rebecca Posner
Syllabicity as a genus, Sievers’ law as a species - Aldo Luigi Prosdocimi
Die entwicklung von komplexen zu einfachen semantischen inhalten - Norbert Reiter
A performance model for a natural theory of linguistic change - Elke Ronneberger-Sibold
On “normal” full root structure and its historical development - Haiim B. Rosén
The rise and fall of final devoicing - Thomas F. Shannon
On the historical relation between mental and speech act verbs in English and Japanese - Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Richard Dasher
On the persistence of imperfect grammars: clitic movement from Late Latin to Romance - Dieter Wanner
The aim of morphological change is a good mixture — not a unifrom language type - Otmar Werner
Syntactic and semantic space: the development of the French subjunctive - Margaret E. Winters
The study of semantic change in early Romance (late Latin) - Roger Wright
Paradigmentstrukturbedingungen: Aufbau und veränderung von flexionsparadigmen - Wolfgang Ullrich Wurzel