Brinton Laurel J. (Ed.). Historical Linguistics 1999

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2001. — 411 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 215).This is a selection of papers from the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics held August 9-13, 1999, at the University of British Columbia. From the rich program and the many papers given during this conference, the present twenty-three papers were carefully selected to display the state of current research in the field of historical linguistics.How far has far from become grammaticalized? - Minoji Akimoto
Recent advances in the reconstruction of the Proto-Munda verb - Gregory D.S. Anderson and Norman H. Zide
Multivariable reanalysis and phonological split - Janice M. Aski
Are old English conjunct clauses really verb-final? - Kristin Bech
Alternation according to person in Italo-Romance - Delia Bentley and Thórhallur Eythórsson
On ablaut and aspect in the history of Aramaic - Vit Bubenik
Language change and the phonological lexicon of Korean - Young-mee Yu Cho
Animals and vegetables, Uto-Aztecan noun derivation, semantic classification, and cultural history - Karen Dakin
Gradience and linguistic change - David Denison
Distinctive vowel length in Old French: Evidence and Implications - Randall Gess
Remains of a submerged continent: Preaspiration in the languages of northwest Europe - Gunnar Ólafur Hansson
Rapid change among expletive polarity items - Jack Hoeksema
The conversational factor in language change: From prenominal to postnominal demonstratives - Maria M. Manoliu
On the origin of the Portuguese inflected infinitive: A new perspective on an enduring debate - Ana Maria Martins
Innovation of the indirect reflexive in Old French - D. Gary Miller
Lexical forces shaping the evolution of grammar - Marianne Mithun
Why “me” and “thee”? - Johanna Nichols
The English s-genitive: Animacy, topicality and possessive relationship in a diachronic perspective - Anette Rosenbach
Default inheritance hierarchies and the evolution of inflectional classes - Gregory T. Stump
On the eve of a new paradigm: The current challenges to comparative linguistics in a Kuhnian perspective - Marie-Lucie Tarpent
Modeling koineization - Donald N. Tuten
Coreference in the Popolocan languages - Annette Veerman-Leichsenring
Atlantis Semitica: Structural contact features in Celtic and English - Theo Vennemann