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TEXTUAL PARAMETERS IN OLDER LANGUAGES 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 Raimo Anttila (Los Angeles); Lyle Campbell (Christchurch, N.Z.) Sheila Embleton (Toronto); John E. Joseph (Edinburgh) Manfred Krifka (Berlin); Hans-Heinrich Lieb (Berlin) E. Wyn Roberts (Vancouver, B.C.); Hans-Jürgen Sasse (Köln) Volume 195 Susan C. Herring, Pieter van Reenen and Lene Schøsler (eds) Textual Parameters in Older Languages TEXTUAL PARAMETERS IN OLDER LANGUAGES Edited by SUSAN C. HERRING University of Texas, Arlington PIETER VAN REENEN Free University, Amsterdam LENE SCHØSLER University of Copenhagen JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY AMSTERDAM/PHILADELPHIA TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American 8 National Standard for Information Sciences — Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Textual parameters in older languages / edited by Susan C. Herring, Pieter van Reenen, Lene Schøsler. p. cm. -- (Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, ISSN 0304-0763 ; v. 195) Includes revised versions of papers originally presented at the 11th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, held at the University of California, Los Angeles, Aug. 1993. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Discourse analysis. 2. Historical linguisitics. I. Herring, Susan C. II. Reenen, Pieter Th. van. III. Schøsler, Lene, 1946- IV. Series. P302.T457 2000 417’.7--dc21 00-021367 ISBN 90 272 3702 6 (Eur.) / 1 55619 973 2 (US) (alk. paper) © 2000 – John Benjamins B.V. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. John Benjamins Publishing Co. • P.O.Box 75577 • 1070 AN Amsterdam • The Netherlands John Benjamins North America • P.O.Box 27519 • Philadelphia PA 19118-0519 • USA For Suzanne Fleischman, whose standards for scholarship have challenged and inspired us. Preface The idea for the present volume was born at the 11th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, which was held at the University of California, Los Angeles in August of 1993. Several of the papers presented at that conference, although focusing on different linguistic phenomenena from different theo- retical perspectives, seemed to be making the same point: linguistic analysis of an older language may depend crucially on variable properties of the textual data themselves. Moreover, while any one example could have been taken as an isolated cautionary tale, the ensemble of the evidence presented in the various papers suggested something more compelling — a need for a new methodological paradigm for working with older languages, and a potentially significant insight about language change. Intrigued by this vision, the first editor approached the second and third editors and proposed a collaborative volume. Among the first papers invited for inclusion were those that had inspired the idea for the volume; thus roughly half of the chapters in this book are expanded versions of papers originally presented at ICHL XI. The other chapters were added subsequently as a result of invitations issued to scholars with a known interest in the topic of text- based variation in older languages. The result, some six-and-a-half years later, is the present volume. Of the ICHL presentations that originally inspired this book, the most influential was a plenary talk by Suzanne Fleischman, which more than any other crystalized the vision of (and need for) a textual parameters approach. In addition to contributing her talk as a chapter of the book, Suzanne took part in early discussions that helped define the approach, and commented closely on the editors’ introduction to the volume. For this guidance, and in recognition more generally of her pioneering contributions to the field of historical dis- course analysis, we have dedicated this volume to her. Sadly, she did not live to see it published. On February 2, 2000, as this volume was in press, Suzanne succumbed after a long, courageous struggle to a blood disease that had turned into leukemia, at the age of 51. We are deeply saddened that this dedication, originally intended as a gesture of appreciation, must now be a posthumous tribute. viii PREFACE The delay in getting the volume to press in no way reflects the timeliness or cooperation of the authors or the publisher, which were exemplary, but rather was due to health problems (now passed) of the first editor. We wish to thank the authors for their patience. We also wish to thank Henning Andersen, ICHL XI organizer, for allowing us to publish papers based on presentations at that conference (i.e. those by Brinton, Fleischman, Gvozdanovi´c, Herring, Kroch et al., Kytö, and van Reenen & Schøsler); Konrad Koerner, for accept- ing the volume for publication in the Current Issues in Linguistic Theory series; and the staff at John Benjamins for their pleasant cooperation and technical assistance. Thanks are also due to Mouton de Gruyter Publishers for granting us permission to reprint Laurel Brinton’s chapter, which due to the delay in getting this volume to press, first appeared in print in her 1996 book Pragmatic Markers in English: Grammaticalization and Discourse Functions. Finally, we wish to express our appreciation to Andreas Jucker, Peter Koch, John Paolillo and Nigel Vincent for their constructive and often thought-provoking comments on the introduction to this volume. Susan C. Herring Pieter van Reenen Lene Schøsler February 5, 2000 Contents THEORETICAL OVERVIEW Susan C. Herring, Pieter van Reenen and Lene Schøsler On Textual Parameters and Older Languages 1 Suzanne Fleischman Methodologies and Ideologies in Historical Linguistics: On Working with Older Languages 33 TEXT TYPE Pieter van Reenen and Lene Schøsler The Pragmatic Functions of the Old French Particles AINZ, APRES, DONC, LORS, OR, PUIS, and SI 59 A. Machtelt Bolkenstein Discourse Organization and Anaphora in Latin 107 Laurel J. Brinton The Importance of Discourse Types in Grammaticalization: The Case of Anon 139 POETICALITY Hans Heinrich Hock Genre, Discourse, and Syntax in Early Indo-European, with Emphasis on Sanskrit 163 Susan C. Herring Poeticality and Word Order in Old Tamil 197 Shoichi Iwasaki Suppressed Assertion and the Functions of the Final-Attributive in Prose and Poetry of Heian Japanese 237
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