Historical Linguistics 2001: Selected papers from the 15th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Melbourne, 13 17 August 2001Barry J. Blake, Kate Burridge This is a selection of papers from the 15th International Conference on Historical Linguistics held in Melbourne 13-17 August 2001, hosted by the Linguistics Program at La Trobe University. The papers range from the general theoretical to the study of particular languages and embrace most areas of linguistics, particularly morpho-syntax. |
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The transition from early to modern Portuguese | 59 |
Isomorphism and language change | 71 |
From purposivefuture to present | 87 |
The formation of periphrastic perfects and passives in Europe | 105 |
The grammaticalization of movement | 129 |
Paths of development for modal meanings | 143 |
Labovian principles of vowel shifting revisited | 293 |
Conventional implicature and language change | 303 |
The rise of IPs in the history of English | 321 |
From subject to object | 339 |
Meaning change in verbs | 351 |
Borrowing as a tool for grammatical optimization in the history of German brand names | 363 |
Pragmatic relevance as cause for syntactic change | 377 |
Early Nordic language history and modern runology | 391 |
On degrammaticalization | 163 |
Process inhibition in historical phonology | 181 |
Reconsidering the canons of soundchange | 205 |
Case in Middle Danish | 221 |
The development of some Indonesian pronominal systems | 237 |
Morphological reconstruction as an etymological method | 271 |
On the interpretation of early evidence for ME vowelchange | 403 |
On the reflexes of ProtoGermanic ai | 417 |
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