Blake Barry J., Burridge Kate (Eds.). Historical Linguistics 2001

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2003. — 455 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 237).This is a selection of papers from the 15th International Conference on Historical Linguistics held in Melbourne 13-17 August 2001, hosted by the Linguistics Program at La Trobe University. The papers range from the general theoretical to the study of particular languages and embrace most areas of linguistics, particularly morpho-syntax.Language contact and language change in Amazonia - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Grammaticalization and the historical development of the genitive in Mainland Scandinavian - John Ole Askedal
Beyond the comparative method? - Lyle Campbell
The transition from early to modern Portuguese: An approach from historical sociolinguistics - Maria José Carvalho
Isomorphism and language change - C. Jac Conradie
From purposive/future to present: Shifting temporal categories in the Pilbara languages of north west Western Australia - Alan Dench
The formation of periphrastic perfects and passives in Europe: An areal approach - Bridget Drinka
The grammaticalization of movement: Word order change in Nordic - Jan Terje Faarlund
Paths of development for modal meanings: Evidence from the Finnic potential mood - Hannele Forsberg
On degrammaticalization - Bernd Heine
Process inhibition in historical phonology - Patrick Honeybone
Reconsidering the canons of sound-change: Towards a ‘Big Bang’ theory - Richard D. Janda and Brian D. Joseph
Case in Middle Danish: A double content system - Eva Skafte Jensen
The development of some Indonesian pronominal systems - Ritsuko Kikusawa
Morphological reconstruction as an etymological method - Harold Koch
Labovian principles of vowel shifting revisited: The short vowel shift in New Zealand English and Southern Chinese - Lau Chun-fat
Conventional implicature and language change: The cyclic evolution of the emphatic pronouns in Romanian - Maria M. Manoliu
The rise of IPs in the History of English - Fuyo Osawa
From subject to object: Case studies on Finnish - Heli Pekkarinen
Meaning change in verbs: The case of strike - Nicholas Riemer
Borrowing as a tool for grammatical optimization in the history of German brand names - Elke Ronneberger-Sibold
Pragmatic relevance as cause for syntactic change: The emergence of prepositional complementizers in Romance - Kim Schulte
Early Nordic language history and modern runology: With particular reference to reduction and prefix loss - Michael Schulte
On the interpretation of early evidence for ME vowel-change - Gjertrud Flermoen Stenbrenden
On the reflexes of Proto-Germanic ai: The spellings ie, ei and ey in Middle Dutch - Pieter van Reenen and Anke Jongkind