Parution : Historical Linguistics 2022

Parution : Historical Linguistics 2022

 

Historical Linguistics 2022

Selected papers from the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oxford, 1–5 August 2022

Editors
Holly Kennard | University of Oxford
Emily Lindsay-Smith | University of Oxford
Aditi Lahiri | University of Oxford
Martin Maiden | University of Oxford
Voir sur le site de l’éditeur : https://www.benjamins.com/catalog/cilt.369
This book offers a peer-reviewed selection of the best and most original contributions to the twenty-fifth International Conference on Historical Linguistics. They faithfully reflect the spirit of the Conference in that they all display a shared passion for the diachronic study of language but also an exciting diversity of research questions, theoretical approaches, linguistic phenomena, and languages explored. Data are drawn from Algonquian, Arandic, Bantu, Cushitic, Edoid, Indo-European, Manchu, Tangkic, Tungusic, and Uralic—among other languages and language-families. In addition to addressing, always with new insights, more traditional concerns of historical linguistics, such as reconstruction, classification, the effects of contact and borrowing, the determinants of morphological, syntactic, phonological, and semantic change, this book presents studies on less conventional topics, for example the diachrony of ideophones.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • Introduction
    Holly Kennard, Emily Lindsay-Smith, Aditi Lahiri and Martin Maiden | pp. 1–4
  • Resurrecting rhymes, reasons and (no) rhotics: Reconstructing Keats’s pronunciation
    Ranjan Sen | pp. 5–19
  • Diachronic phonology with Contrastive Hierarchy Theory
    B. Elan Dresher | pp. 20–34
  • The life cycle of phonological patterns explains drift in sound change
    Pavel Iosad | pp. 35–49
  • The diachronic typology of retroflex vowels
    Jakob Halfmann | pp. 50–61
  • Diachronic shifts among sound ideophones
    Ronald P. Schaefer and Francis O. Egbokhare | pp. 62–78
  • The classification of the Plains Algonquian languages
    Joseph Salmons | pp. 79–93
  • Modelling combined linguistic and non-linguistic evidence in language reconstruction
    Jadranka Gvozdanović | pp. 94–109
  • Dissimilatory constraints discriminate between variants in analogical change
    Louise Esher | pp. 110–127
  • Patterns of suppletion in inflection revisited: What the Crossover Constraint constrains
    Frans Plank | pp. 128–149
  • Differential object marking in early Italo-Romance and old Sardinian
    Michela Cennamo and Francesco Maria Ciconte | pp. 150–165
  • Semantic factors in case loss: The Serbian-Bulgarian dialectal continuum
    Masha Kyuseva, Alexander Krasovitsky, Matthew Baerman and Greville G. Corbett | pp. 166–183
  • Morphosyntactic borrowing in closely related varieties: ‘False cognates’ in Swahili
    Lutz Marten and Hannah Gibson | pp. 184–197
  • Nominal privative suffixes as a diachronic source of verbal negative markers: Evidence from Australian languages
    Harold Koch | pp. 198–214
  • The emergence of oblique subjects: Identifiable processes in the history of Icelandic
    Sigríður Sæunn Sigurðardóttir and Thórhallur Eythórsson | pp. 215–231
  • Grammaticalization of sentence adverbs and modal particles revisited
    Katrin Axel-Tober, Marco Coniglio, Kalle Müller and Katharina Paul | pp. 232–248
  • A discourse analysis of left-dislocation in Old English
    Artur Bartnik | pp. 249–262
  • The semantics of word borrowing in late medieval English: A preliminary investigation
    Louise Sylvester, Megan Tiddeman, Richard Ingham and Kathryn Allan | pp. 263–278
  • Approximative adverbs in modern and pre-modern languages
    Jack Hoeksema | pp. 279–293
  • The history of numerals as a history of East African languages
    Maarten Mous | pp. 294–305
  • Language index | p. 307
  • Subject index | pp. 309–310

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