Historical linguistics 2003 : selected papers from the 16th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Copenhagen, 11-15 August 2003

331 Pages·2005·1.853 MB·English

by  Michael D Fortescue, et al

HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS 2003
AMSTERDAM STUDIES IN THE THEORY AND
HISTORY OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCE
General Editor
E.F. KONRAD KOERNER
(Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie
und Universalienforschung, Berlin)
Series IV – CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY
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Brian D. Joseph (Columbus, Ohio); John E. Joseph (Edinburgh)
Manfred Krifka (Berlin); E. Wyn Roberts (Vancouver, B.C.)
Joseph C. Salmons (Madison, Wis.); Hans-Jürgen Sasse (Köln)

Volume 257
Michael Fortescue, Eva Skafte Jensen,
Jens Erik Mogensen and Lene Schøsler (eds.)
Historical Linguistics 2003. Selected papers from the 6th International
Conference on Historical Linguistics, Copenhagen, –5 August 2003
HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS
2003
SELECTED PAPERS FROM THE
16TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS,
COPENHAGEN, 11–15 AUGUST 2003
Edited by
MICHAEL FORTESCUE
University of Copenhagen
EVA SKAFTE JENSEN
Roskilde University
JENS ERIK MOGENSEN
University of Copenhagen
LENE SCHØSLER
University of Copenhagen

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Table of contents
Preface vii
TypologicalreflectionsonlossofmorphologicalcaseinMiddleLow
GermanandintheMainlandScandinavianlanguages 1
JohnOleAskedal
EthnoreconstructioninKok-Papónk 21
PaulBlack
Raisingverbsvs.auxiliaries 31
KasperBoye
Ontheoriginofthefinalunstressed[i]inBrazilianandother
varietiesofPortuguese:Newevidenceinanenduringdebate 47
MariaJoséCarvalho
Socio-historicalevidenceforcopulavariabilityinrural
SouthernAmerica 61
GaillynnD.Clements
MainstressleftinEarlyMiddleEnglish 75
B.ElanDresherandAditiLahiri
Somedialectal,sociolectalandcommunicativeaspectsofwordorder
variationandchangeinLateMiddleEnglish 87
TamásEitler

Usinguniversalprinciplesofphoneticqualitativereduction
ingrammaticalizationtoexplaintheOldSpanishshift
fromgetose 103
AndrésEnrique-Arias
TheoriginoftransitiveauxiliaryverbsinChukotko-Kamchatkan 115
MichaelFortescue
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 Tableofcontents
GrammaticalisationandLatin 131
MichèleFruyt
Pathsofsemanticextension:Fromcausetobeneficiaryandpurpose 141
SilviaLuraghi
Vanishingdiscoursemarkers:Lat.etvs.sicinOldFrench
andOldRomanian 159
MariaM.Manoliu
Fromditransitivetomonotransitivestructureinthehistoryofthe
Spanishlanguage.Reanalysisofobjects:Acaseofincorporation
andmonotransitivization 179
RosaMaríaOrtizCiscomani
ReflexiveintensificationinSpanish:Towardacomplexreflexive? 199
JohanPedersen
ModernSwedishbara:Fromadjectivetoconditionalsubordinator 225
HenrikRosenkvist
Nordicprefixlossandmetricalstresstheorywithparticular
referencetoga-andbi- 241
MichaelSchulte
Theoriginanddevelopmentoflär,amodalepistemicinSwedish 257
GudrunSvensson
ThedevelopmentoftheSpanishverbintoanauxiliaryofvoice 279
ThoraVinther
Thedevelopmentofcontinuousaspect 301
KazuhaWatanabe
Index 317
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Preface
TheXVIth InternationalConferenceonHistoricalLinguisticsthattookplace
in Copenhagen, 11–15 August 2003, gathered the largest number of partici-
pants,papers,andlanguagesthisconferencehaseverknown.Therewere370
participantsfrom35countriesand5continents.
Outofaverylargenumberofabstractssubmittedandreviewed,246were
accepted and 236 actually presented. In addition to the general programme,
15 thematic sections were organizedand there were between 7 and9 parallel
sessionseachday.Thesectionswereasfollows:
1. North American and Siberian languages, organized by Una Canger and
MichaelFortescue
2. InternalreconstructioninIndo-European:Methods,resultsandproblems,
organizedbyJensElmegaardRasmussen
3. LatinandGreek,organizedbyGerdV.M.Haverling
4. DifferentmodelsofchangeorganizedbyOleNedergaardThomsen
5. Grammaticalizationandreanalysis,organizedbyJanTerjeFaarlund
6. Language contact, bilingualism and change, organized by Jens Normann
JørgensenandToreKristiansen
7. Aboriginallanguages,organizedbyWilliamMcGregor
8. Deliberate linguistic changes: when, how, and how often? organized by
SallyThomason
9. Historical pragmatics, organized by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and
CorinneRossari

10. Languageandmedia,organizedbySusanC.Herring
11. OldGermanicsyntax,organizedbyUlrikeDemskeandAnsvanKemenade
12. Thediachronyofwriting,organizedbySørenWichmann
13. Proto-Japanese,organizedbyBjarkeFrellesvigandJohnWhitman
14. FromOld to Classical French: Parametersof linguistic change, organized
byFranceMartineauandMireilleTremblay
15. Romancevariationandchangeinacomparativeperspective,organizedby
ThomasD.CravensandFernandoTejedo-Herrero.
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 Preface
Separate publications are being prepared for papers selected from several of
thesesections.
As usual, plenary speakers were chosen to represent important method-
ologicalorientationswithin HistoricalLinguistics.Theywerelinkedthemati-
callytoanumberofthesections.Thespeakerswere:
HenningAndersen,UCLA,LosAngeles:Synchrony,diachrony,andevolution
(Sectionondifferentmodelsofchange)
JoanBybee,UniversityofNewMexico,Alberquerque:Thedevelopmentofthe
category auxiliary in English (Section on grammaticalization and reana-
lysis)
WilliamCroft,UniversityofManchester:Cananevolutionarymodelalterthe
waywedohistoricallinguistics?(Sectionondifferentmodelsofchange)
ScottDeLancey,UniversityofOregon:ThesemantictransparencyofKlamath
bipartitestems(SectiononNorthAmericanandSiberianlanguages)
MichèleFruyt,UniversitédeSorbonne,ParisIV:GrammaticalizationinLatin
withspecialregardtomodality(SectiononLatinandGreek)
Ricardo Otheguy, CUNY Graduate Center NYC: Change and persistence in
bilingualandmultidialectal communities: Pronominalvariation and lex-
ical borrowing in Spanish-English bilingualism in New York (Section on
languagecontact,bilingualismandchange)
SallyThomason,UniversityofMichigan:Canyouchangeyourlanguage?The
limitsofhistoricaldeterminationinlinguisticchange(Sectionondeliber-
atelinguisticchanges:When,how,andhowoften?)
DianeVincent,UniversitédeLaval,Québec:Thehistoryofnon-standarddis-
coursemarkers(Sectiononhistoricalpragmatics)
Prof.JayJasanoff,UniversityofHarvard:Internalreconstructionandthe PIE
bh-cases(SectiononinternalreconstructioninIndo-European).
TheOrganizingCommitteeconsistedofthefollowingprofessorsandPh.D.
students from the University of Copenhagen and the University of Roskilde:
UnaCanger,Mic haelFortescue,FransGregersen,JanHeegård,KirstenKragh,
XavierLepetit,AnneJensen,EvaSkafteJensen,JensErikMogensen,Maj-Britt
MosegaardHansen,andOleNedergaardThomsen.
Studentassistantswere:
JulieAndersen,EaFeldfos,MartaG.Kirilova,SoonTrolleNielsen,Ruben
Schachtenhaufen,andLouiseTorp-Pedersen.
Secretaryandwebmaster:EsbenLydiksen.
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Preface 
Three members of the Organizing Committee, Michael Fortescue, Eva
SkafteJensen,JensErikMogensen,andtheConferenceDirector,haveprepared
thepresentpublication.Allpapersreceivedhavebeenreviewedand19papers
selected–thecriteriaforselectionwere:quality,varietyofmethods,andvari-
etyoftopics.Theycoverthedomainsofmorphology,phonology,pragmatics,
andsyntax, andinclude studieson ethnolinguistics, grammaticalisation,lan-
guagecontact,sociolinguistics,andtypology.Amongthelanguagestreatedare:
Brazilian, Chukchi, Korean, Danish, English, German, Greek, Japanese, Kok-
Papónk, Latin, Newar, Old Norse, Romanian, Seneca, Spanish, and Swedish.
LeneSchøsler
ConferenceDirector