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Keith Allan   Editor Dynamics of Language Changes Looking Within and Across Languages Dynamics of Language Changes Keith Allan Editor Dynamics of Language Changes Looking Within and Across Languages 123 Editor KeithAllan MonashUniversity Melbourne, VIC,Australia ISBN978-981-15-6429-1 ISBN978-981-15-6430-7 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6430-7 ©SpringerNatureSingaporePteLtd.2020 Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.AllrightsarereservedbythePublisher,whetherthewholeorpart of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission orinformationstorageandretrieval,electronicadaptation,computersoftware,orbysimilarordissimilar methodologynowknownorhereafterdeveloped. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publicationdoesnotimply,evenintheabsenceofaspecificstatement,thatsuchnamesareexemptfrom therelevantprotectivelawsandregulationsandthereforefreeforgeneraluse. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained hereinorforanyerrorsoromissionsthatmayhavebeenmade.Thepublisherremainsneutralwithregard tojurisdictionalclaimsinpublishedmapsandinstitutionalaffiliations. ThisSpringerimprintispublishedbytheregisteredcompanySpringerNatureSingaporePteLtd. The registered company address is: 152 Beach Road, #21-01/04 Gateway East, Singapore 189721, Singapore Dedication The authors of Dynamics of Language Changes: Looking Within and Across Languagesareallcolleagues,friendsand,inacoupleofcases,ex-studentsofKate Burridge FAHA, Prof. of Linguistics at Monash University to whom this work is dedicated. Fig.1 KateBurridgein19911 Kate completed her undergraduate training in Linguistics and German at the UniversityofWesternAustraliaandtravelledtotheUniversityofLondonwhere,in 1983, she was awarded her Ph.D. on syntactic change in Medieval Dutch. She taught at the Polytechnic of Central London before joining the Department of Linguistics at La Trobe University in 1984. In 2003 she took up the Chair of Linguistics in what is now the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University. 1PhotocopyrightheldbytheEditor. v vi Dedication For many years Kate has been a regular presenter of language segments on Australia’sABCRadio.Foritssixseasons(2006–2011)sheappearedweeklyasthe linguistic expert on ABC TV’s lifestyle program ‘Can We Help?’ Kate is an excellent communicator, familiar to the general public (including schoolkids) as well as to the academic community. Through her consistently high level of com- munity engagement, Kate seeks to apply the well-researched principles of lin- guistics to everyday life, explicating notions about the ways people speak. Kate has won many awards for her expertise in research and teaching. Her research has illumined Pennsylvania German-speaking communities in Canada, grammatical change in Germanic languages, the nature of euphemism and dys- phemism, linguistic taboo, and English grammatical structure in general. In recent times she has engaged with the impact of language attitudes in criminal justice proceedings, with communication in health interactions, with cultural models of ageing in Australia and with mental health communication among older Australians. Kate’s published output is far too extensive to list here (see https://research. monash.edu/en/persons/kathryn-burridge). A sample of just ten items from her corpus is: (cid:129) 1991 (with Keith Allan) Euphemism and Dysphemism: Language Used As Shield and Weapon (Oxford) (cid:129) 1993 Some Aspects of Syntactic Change in Germanic (Benjamins) (cid:129) 2002(withMargaretFlorey)‘Yeah-nohe’sagoodkid’:Adiscourseanalysis of yeah-no in Australian English, Australian Journal of Linguistics 22: 149–71 (cid:129) 2004BloomingEnglish:ObservationsontheRoots,CultivationandHybrids of the English Language (Cambridge) (cid:129) 2006 (with Keith Allan) Forbidden Words: Taboo and the Censoring of Language (Cambridge) (cid:129) 2008 (with Bernd Kortmann) Varieties of English 3: The Pacific and Australia (Mouton) (cid:129) 2015(withRékaBenczes)Currentattitudestoageingasreflectedinthenames of Australian aged care facilities, Names: A Journal of Onomastics 63(3): 127–45 (cid:129) 2016 (with Tonya Stebbins) For the Love of Language: An Introduction to Linguistics (Cambridge) (cid:129) 2017 (with Alex Bergs) Understanding Language Change (Routledge) (cid:129) 2019 (with Kersti Börjars) Introducing English Grammar. Third, substan- tially revised edition. First edn 2001. (Routledge) This volume, Dynamics of Language Changes: Looking Within and Across Languages, is a collection of essays by distinguished international scholars on manydifferentaspectsofchangeswithinandacrosslanguages.Becausethebookis nota monograph buta collectionof essays by a host of authors, theplacing ofthe chapters in relation to each other was challenging and some readers may conceive Dedication vii of preferred alternative arrangements. Even so, we hope they will esteem the content of each chapter and so appreciate the merit of the volume as a whole. Dynamics of Language Changes comprises 17 chapters grouped into three parts. PartI,‘LanguageChanges:LookingWithinaLanguage’consistsofeightchapters. Chapter 1 explains how in an Oceanic language of Papua New Guinea addressee-based deictics develop discourse functions to mark information status. Chapter 2 investigates the differing usages of never in Australian conversation. Chapter 3 focuses on the revitalization of Indigenous Australian languages. Chapter4 studiestheplaceandfunctionsofyouseinAustralianEnglish.Chapter5 assesses ways in which usage guides and interested lay folk react to emphatic literally. Chapter 6 surveys attitudes to closing salutations in emails. Chapter 7 argues from idiomatic expressions that Australian English forms ‘the perfect sandbox for historical linguistics’. Chapter 8 evaluates several lexical semantic analysesoftheEnglishwordcup,incidentallyshowingitsextensiontoavarietyof denotata. Part II, ‘Language Changes: Looking Across Languages’, consists of six chapters. Chapter 9 scrutinizes translations of ‘semantic false friends’ in half a dozen languages: words that have a common origin but have developed different meanings.Chapter 10 examinesborrowingintotheEnglishlexiconandtheexport of English vocabulary into other languages. Chapter 11 examines words that have gone into and out of English at different times and with different motivations. Chapter12 looksatperiodizationacrossRomancelanguagestoassessthemeritof descriptions like ‘Old’, ‘Middle’ and ‘Modern’. Chapter 13 appraises cultural keywords in Philippine English, showing their adaptation to profound changes in the core values of social structures in the speech community. Chapter 14 looks at the outcomes of language contact in one language of the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea. Part III, ‘Language Changes: Other Aspects’ has three chapters. Chapter15 considershowpeoplewhoareborndeafandlosetheirsightlaterinlife go about adapting Australian sign language for tactile delivery and reception. Chapter 16 is an essay on sound symbolism in English that leads to semantic change. Chapter 17 analyses the poetic and musical structure of some traditional songs in a minority language of Northeast India. We the contributors all hope that much-loved Kate will enjoy this book, our humble offering of essays on aspects of changes within and across languages. Contents Part I Language Changes: Looking Within a Language 1 Different Sources, Same Path—From Addressee-Based Deictics to Markers of Discourse Status. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Anna Margetts 2 The Punctual Never in Australian English: The Mysterious Case of the Missing Vernacular Universal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Isabelle Burke 3 Standardise This! Prescriptivism and Resistance to Standardization in Language Revitalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Vicki Couzens, Alice Gaby, and Tonya Stebbins 4 Here’s Looking at youse: Understanding the Place of yous(e) in Australian English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Jean Mulder and Cara Penry Williams 5 Language Literally Changes: Usage Guides and Their Influence on Language Attitudes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Alyssa A. Severin 6 Closing Salutations in Email Messages: User Attitudes and Interpersonal Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Simon Musgrave 7 What Do You Think This Is, Bush Week? Construction Grammar and Language Change in Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Alexander Bergs 8 On Cups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Keith Allan ix x Contents Part II Language Changes: Looking Across Languages 9 Partial Semantic False Friends and the Indeterminacy of Translation in Philosophical Texts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 Pedro J. Chamizo-Domínguez 10 Both a Borrower and a Lender Be: English as Importer and Exporter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 Barry J. Blake 11 What’s the Score?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 Kersti Börjars and Nigel Vincent 12 Old, Middle, and Modern: Temporality and Typology . . . . . . . . . . 183 John Charles Smith 13 Cultural Keywords in Philippine English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 Pam Peters 14 Language Contact and Language Change in the Sepik Region of New Guinea: The Case of Yalaku. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald Part III Language Changes: Other Aspects 15 From Seeing to Feeling: How Do Deafblind People Adapt Visual Sign Languages?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 Louisa Willoughby, Howard Manns, Shimako Iwasaki, and Meredith Bartlett 16 Sound Symbolism and Semantic Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 Réka Benczes 17 The Singpho Water Flowing Song: Searching for the Poetics in a Rich Maze of Linguistic Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 Stephen Morey Appendix: The Arrival of Chau Alawng at the Home of His Lover, Ing—Text and Translation (Lines 139–180). .... ..... .... 281 Index .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 283 Editor and Contributors About the Editor Keith Allan MLitt, Ph.D. (Edinburgh), FAHA. Emeritus Professor, Monash University.Selectedbooks:LinguisticMeaning(Routledge,1986;2014);Euphemism andDysphemism:LanguageUsedasShieldandWeapon(withKateBurridge,OUP, 1991); Natural Language Semantics (Blackwell, 2001); Forbidden Words: Taboo and the Censoring of Language (with Kate Burridge, CUP, 2006); Concise Encyclopaedia of Semantics (Elsevier, 2009); The Western Classical Tradition in Linguistics Second Expanded Edition (Equinox, 2010); Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics (with Kasia Jaszczolt, CUP, 2012); Oxford Handbook of the History of Linguistics (OUP, 2013); Routledge Handbook of Linguistics (2016); Oxford Handbook of Taboo Words and Language (OUP, 2018) Homepage: http://users. monash.edu.au/*kallan/homepage.html. Contributors Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald LCRC JCU, Cairns, QLD, Australia Keith Allan Monash University, Peregian Springs, QLD, Australia Meredith Bartlett Monash University, Melbourne, Australia RékaBenczes InstituteofCommunicationandSociology,CorvinusUniversityof Budapest, Budapest, Hungary Alexander Bergs Osnabrück University, Osnabrück, Germany Barry J. Blake La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia Isabelle Burke Monash University, Melbourne, Australia xi

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