Historical Linguistics 1993: Selected Papers from the 11th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Los Angeles, 16-20 August 1993

471 Pages·1995·39.95 MB·English

by  Henning Andersen (Ed.)

HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS 1993
AMSTERDAM STUDIES IN THE THEORY AND
HISTORY OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCE
General Editor
E.F. KONRAD KOERNER
(University of Ottawa)
Series IV - CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY
Advisory Editorial Board
Henning Andersen (Los Angeles); Raimo Anttila (Los Angeles)
Thomas V. Gamkrelidze (Tbilisi); John E. Joseph (Hong Kong)
Hans-Heinrich Lieb (Berlin); Ernst Pulgram (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
E. Wyn Roberts (Vancouver, B.C.); Danny Steinberg (Tokyo)
Volume 124
Henning Andersen (ed.)
Historical Linguistics 1993
HISTORICAL
LINGUISTICS 1993
Selected Papers from the 11th International
Conference on Historical Linguistics,
Los Angeles, 16-20 August 1993
Edited by
HENNING ANDERSEN
University of California at Los Angeles
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PREFACE
This volume contains a selection of the papers presented at the Eleventh
International Conference on Historical Linguistics, which was held at the
University of California, Los Angeles, 16-21 August 1993. Among them are
a few that were presented in the workshop on Typology and Parameters
organized by David W. Lightfoot and myself.
It is a pleasure to record here the gratitude of the International Society for
Historical Linguistics to the institutions and individuals who helped make the
Conference a success.
ICHL 1993 received financial and material support from the College of
Letters and Science of UCLA, from many of the departments of its Division
of Humanities — English, French, Germanic Languages, Italian, Linguistics,
Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Slavic Languages and Literatures,
Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures, and from the Center for
European and Russian Studies. I am grateful to the chairs and staff of these
departments and especially grateful for the moral support I received from the
department chairs Jean-Claude Carron, Antonio Loprieno, and Russell Schuh.
I am pleased to thank Executive Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Andrea L. Rich,
who opened the Conference, and Provost Brian P. Copenhaver, who welcom­
ed the participants on behalf of the College. I owe a special debt of gratitude to
the members of the local committee, who offered invaluable advice regarding
the practical arrangements of the Conference, Carmen Silva-Corvalán and
Mario Saltarelli of the University of Southern California, Donka Minkova,
Claudia Parodi, Christopher Stevens, Robert P. Stockwell, and Edward Tuttle
of UCLA. But the Conference would not have been possible without the
dedicated and enthusiastic contributions made by the graduate students of
several departments who gave freely of their energies and creativity: Timothy
Beasley, Susan Bauckus, Henry Biggs, Joan Chevalier, Elian Chuaqui,
Christopher Gigliotti, Louis Greenwald, Karn King, Edda Kristjánsdóttir,
Theresa McShane, Ron Richards. They deserve a separate, warm thank-you.
The papers presented in the Conference were chosen on the basis of
abstracts evaluated by members of the Executive Committee of the ISHL.
These same persons and three referees who prefer to remain anonymous
helped select the papers published in this volume. I thank them for the
valuable judgement they contributed and for their time.
In preparing this volume for publication I was ably assisted by my
students Joan Chevalier, Elian Chuaqui, and Ling-Yao Lai. I am grateful to
them all, but especially to Joan, who was my right hand at the time of the
Conference and did a large part of the editorial work afterwards.
In view of the considerable effort that was made to bring this volume to
the printer soon after the Conference, let it be recorded that it could easily have
Vi PREFACE
been published some six months earlier had it not been for the Northridge,
California Earthquake of 17 January 1994, which wrought death and destruc­
tion and, among innumerable other minor adverse effects, threw our pro­
duction plans agley.
Henning Andersen
University of California, Los Angeles
October 1994
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Andrew Allen
Regrammaticalization
and degrammaticalization of the inchoative suffix 1
Gregory S. Anderson
Light shed on problems of Turkic conjugation: the Northeast
Turkic progressive present in -Ipča(t) and the 'mixed' conjugation 9
Julie Auger
On the history of relative clauses in French and some of its dialects 19
Laurel Brinton & Dieter Stein
Functional renewal 3 3
Vit Bubenik
Passives and ergatives in Middle Indo-Aryan 49
Kate Burridge
Evidence of grammaticalization in Pennsylvania German 59
Concepción Company
Old forms for new concepts:
the recategorization of possessive duplications in Mexican Spanish 11
C. Jac Conradie
On subjectification in modal adverbs 93
Thomas D. Cravens & Luciano Giannelli
Gender, class, and prestige in the spread of an allophonic rule 105
Naomi Cull
Reconstruction of the Proto-Romance syllable 117
Andrei Danchev
The development of word-final /b/ in English 133
Bridget Drinka
Areal linguistics in prehistory: evidence from Indo-European aspect 143
Richard Epstein
The later stages
in the development of the definite article: evidence from French 159
Jadranka Gvozdanović
Parameters underlying the organization of medieval Russian texts 177
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Kaoru Horie
What the choice of the overt
nominalizer NO did to Modern Japanese syntax and semantics 191
Masataka Ishikawa
On categorial evolution: a case study in Spanish possessives 205
Bernard Jacquinod
Regression and creation in the double accusative in Ancient Greek 217
Dieter Kastovsky
Morphological reanalysis and typology:
the case of the German r-plural and why English did not develop it. 227
Ritva Laury
On the grammaticization of the definite article SE in spoken Finnish 239
Leena Löfstedt
Identifying an Old French text with the help of dialect analysis 251
Silvia Luraghi
Prototypicality and agenthood in Indo-European 259
Maria Manoliu-Manea
Genetic congruence
versus areal convergence: the misfortune of Latin AD in Romanian 269
Jaap van Marie
On the fate of adjectival declension
in Overseas Dutch (with some notes on the history of Dutch) 283
Ana Maria Martins
Clitic placement from Old to Modern European Portuguese 295
Chantai Melis
A diachronic view of prepositional verbs of emotion in Spanish 309
Robert W. Murray
Phonologically based morphological change:
high-vowel deletion and paradigmatic implications in Old English 323
Johanna Nichols
Diachronically stable structural features 337
Jairo Nunes
The diachronic
distribution of bare and prepositional infinitives in English 357
Claudia Parodi
Object shift in Old Spanish: a minimalist theory approach 371
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Betty S.Phillips
Lexical diffusion
as a guide to scribal intent: a comparison of ME «eo» and «e»
spellings in the PETERBOROUGH CHRONICLE and the ORMULUM 379
Susan Pintzuk
Verb-seconding in Old English 387
Pieter van Reenen & Lene Schøsler
The thematic
structure of the main clause in Old French, OR versus SI 401
Elke Ronneberger-Sibold
On different ways of optimizing the sound shape of words 421
Nigel Vincent
Exaptation and grammaticalization 433
Authors' Addresses 447
Index of Names 449
Index of Languages 457