Van Marle Jaap (Ed.). Historical Linguistics 1991

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1993. — 414 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 107).Papers from the 10th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam, August 12–16, 1991This volume contains 22 of the 95 papers presented during ICHL 10. The articles included here clearly reflect the on-going interest in the general mechanisms of language change, the close relationship between present-day historical linguistics and linguistic theory, and the renewed interest in language contact. The papers deal with more general issues as well as with specific problems in diverse languages and language groups. The volume contains three indexes: of names, of languages, and of subjects.The tendency towards right branching in the development and acquisition of Latin and French - Brigitte L.M. Bauer
Linguistics and its positivist handicap - Bernard H. Bichakjian
Question words in 18th-century and 20th-century Sranan - Adrienne Bruyn
The explanation of syntactic change: a historical perspective - Lyle Campbell
Traffic between the pragmatic and structural levels - C. Jac Conradie
Parameter resetting - Dorothy Disterheft
Old French and constraints on consonant epenthesis - Denis Dumas
The definite article: early stages of development - Richard Epstein
Language change: complex in its sources and directions, yet simple in systematicity - Jadranka Gvozdanović
Suppression of a word-order pattern in Westgermanic - Jack Hoeksema
Modularity in language change - Masataka Ishikawa
Blood, tears, and murder: the evidence for Proto-Uto-Aztecan syllable-final consonants - Alexis Manaster-Ramer
On leapfrogging in historical phonology - Donka Minkova
Greenberg’s American Indian classification: a report on the controversy - Paul Newman
The grammaticalization of Spanish haber plus participle - Hella Olbertz
Latin to Romance (again!): change or genesis? - Rebecca Posner
Linguistic variants and language change: deictic variants in some German and Dutch dialects vis-à-vis Afrikaans - Edith H. Raidt
‘Typological conservatism’ and framing constructions in German morphosyntax - Elke Ronneberger-Sibold
On the evidence for bimoric vowels in Early English - Robert P. Stockwell
Longterm evolution of the syntax of discourse and the Swahili person markers - Benji Wald
Jewish historical linguistics: 1981–1991–2001 - Paul Wexler
Gerunds and their objects in the Modern English period - Wim van der Wurff