Fortescue Michael, Jensen Eva Skafte, Mogensen Jens Erik, Schøsler Lene (Eds.). Historical Linguistics 2003

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2005. — 332 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 257).This volume consists of 19 papers presented at the 16th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, which was held in August 2003 in Copenhagen and drew the largest number of participants and the widest array of languages that this important biannual conference has ever had. As with previous volumes, the papers selected cover a wide range of subjects besides the core areas of historical linguistics, and this time include studies on ethnolinguistics, grammaticalisation, language contact, sociolinguistics, and typology. The individual languages treated include Brazilian Portuguese, Chukchi, Korean, Danish, English, German, Greek, Japanese, Kok-Papónk, Latin, Newar, Old Norse, Romanian, Seneca, Spanish, and Swedish. The volume reflects the state of the art both empirical and theoretical — in Historical Linguistics today, and shows the discipline to be as flourishing and capable of new advances as ever.Typological reflections on loss of morphological case in Middle Low German and in the Mainland Scandinavian languages - John Ole Askedal
Ethnoreconstruction in Kok-Papónk - Paul Black
Rraising verbs vs. auxiliaries - Kasper Boye
On the origin of the final unstressed [i]in Brazilian and other varieties of Portuguese: New evidence in an enduring debate - Maria José Carvalho
Socio-historical evidence for copula variability in rural Southern America - Gaillynn D. Clements
Main Stress Left in Early Middle English - B. Elan Dresher and Aditi Lahiri
Some dialectal, sociolectal and communicative aspects of word order variation and change in Late Middle English - Tamás Eitler
Using Universal Principles of Phonetic Qualitative Reduction in Grammaticalization to explain the Old Spanish Shift from ge to se - Andrés Enrique-Arias
The origin of transitive auxiliary verbs in Chukotko-Kamchatkan - Michael Fortescue
Grammaticalisation and Latin - Michele Fruyt
Paths of semantic extension: From cause to beneficiary and purpose - Silvia Luraghi
Vanishing discourse markers: Lat. et vs. sic in Old French and Old Romanian - Maria M. Manoliu
From ditransitive to monotransitive structure in the history of the Spanish language. Reanalysis of objects: A case of incorporation and monotransitivization - Rosa María Ortiz Ciscomani
Reflexive intensification in Spanish: Toward a complex reflexive? - Johan Pedersen
Modern Swedish bara: From adjective to conditional subordinator - Henrik Rosenkvist
Nordic prefix loss and metrical stress theory with particular reference to ga- and bi - - Michael Schulte
The origin and development of lär, a modal epistemic in Swedish - Gudrun Svensson
The development of the Spanish verb ir to an auxiliary of voice - Thora Vinther
The development of continuous aspect - Kazuha Watanabe