Historical Linguistics 1995: Selected Papers from the 12th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Manchester, August 1995, Volume 1: General Issues and Non-Germanic Languages

This volume contains papers on general issues of language change, as well as specific studies of non-Germanic languages, including Romance, Slavonic, Japanese, Australian languages, and early Indo-European. A second volume, edited by Richard M. Hogg and Linda van Bergen, contains papers on Germanic. CILT 161 HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS 1995 2 Editorial page 3 Title page 4 Copyright page 5 Table of contents 6 Introduction 8 Emergence and Evolution of French Nasal Vowels Reconsidering Data through the Interplay of Production and Perception 13 0. Introduction 13 1. History of vowel nasalization 13 2. Theoretical framework and constraints at issue 15 3. Vowel nasalization before word-internal RHYME nasal consonants 17 4. Vowel nasalization before intervocalic nasal consonants 22 5. Vowel nasalization before final nasal consonants 24 6. Theoretical consequences: long vowels 28 7. Theoretical consequences: unstressed vowels 29 8. Conclusion 30 References 32 Development of Aspect from Ancient Slavic to Bulgaro-Macedonian 35 1. The functional overlap between the perfect and the aorist in Ancient Slavic 35 2. The rise of the 'have'-perfect in Macedonian 36 3. The origins of the inferential mode in Bulgaro-Macedonian 40 4. Conclusions 44 References 45 Patterns of 'Active' Syntax in Late Latin Pleonastic Reflexives 47 0. Introduction 47 1.Split Intransitivity/Unaccusativity 48 2. Late Latin pleonastic se/sibi 53 3. Se/sibi as markers of Split Intransitivity/Unaccusativity 57 4. Conclusion 60 References 64 Comparative Reconstitution 69 1. Introduction 69 2. The Nyungar case 70 3. Reconstitution by the comparative method 72 4. Conclusion 83 References 84 Expletives and Change A Morphological Approach to Syntactic Change Monique Dufresne, Fernande Dupuis & Mireille Tremblay 85 1. Introduction 85 2. Expletives 88 3. Demonstratives 94 4. The evolution of ce and cela 96 5. Conclusion 97 References 97 Variationbetween the French Clitics y and lui Semantics vs. Morphology 99 0.Introduction 99 1. Alternations between y and lui in contemporary standard French 100 2. An imperfect semantic specialization 103 3 A preferred specialization on a formal basis 106 4. Conclusion 108 References 109 On Simplicity in Linguistic Reconstruction 111 References 122 Recent Changes in the Tonology of Kyoto Japanese 123 0. Introduction 123 1. Phonological and morphophonological preliminaries 123 2. Distribution of tonal verb classes in relation to prosodic length 126 3. Inflected and derived forms of L-verbs 129 4. Active metatony 130 5. Passive metatony 131 6. -mono derivatives 132 7. Summary and discussion 134 References 136 On Some Grammaticalization Patterns for Auxiliaries 137 1. Introduction 137 2. The Italian verbs andare and venire in auxiliary function 138 3. Morphosyntactic restrictions and the semantic characterization of andare + past participle 140 4. Morphosyntactic restrictions and semantic characterization of venire + past participle 149 5. Andare, venire + gerund 154 6. Summary and conclusions 156 References 162 Kakari Particles and the Merger of the Predicative and Attributive Forms in Old Japanese 167 References 177 Sources 179 Is Quantifier-Floating in Japanese a Recent Innovation? Contextual Analysis of the Numeral Quantifier Construction in Old Japanese 181 0. Introduction. 181 1. Brief profiles of Japanese Q-constructions. 183 2. Discourse functions of NXQ and NQ. 185 3. How to distinguish NØQ from NQ 189 4. Post-nominal quantifier constructions in Old Japanese 189 5. Reassessment 199 6. Conclusion 200 References 201 Vedic Causative Nasal Presents and their Thematicization A Functional Approach 203 1. The problem 203 2. Preliminary remarks 204 3. A preliminary hypothesis: transitivity and thematicization 207 4. Rigvedic evidence 208 5. Evidence from a later text: Atharvaveda 217 6. A tentative explanation and conclusions 218 Abbreviations 220 References 220 Translations 221 The 'Invisible Hand' At Work 'Phonemic Change as a 'Phenomenon of the Third Kind' 223 References 232 The Origins of Definiteness Marking 235 1. Introduction 235 2. Definiteness and functional categories 236 3. Demonstrative to article 241 4. The development of DP 245 5. Definite clitics 248 References 251 From Deixis ad Oculos to Discourse Markers via Deixis ad Phantasma 255 1. Amu vs. acmu in sixteenth-century texts: from deixis to narrative markers. 258 2. Amu, acmu and acum in seventeenth-century texts 264 3. Conclusions 268 References 269 The Legacy of Recycled Aspect 273 1. The durative 274 2. The imperfective/perfective distinction 275 3. Imperfective statives 280 4. Continuatives 281 5. Habitual imperfectives 282 6. Habitual perfectives 283 7. Frequentatives 284 8. Implications of the Central Pomo system 285 Abbreviations 289 References 289 The Development of Transitivity in the Chibchan Languages of Colombia 291 1. Historical and comparative background 291 2. Persistent morpho-syntactic typology of Colombian Chibchan 293 3. Morpheme correspondences in Colombian Chibchan 294 4. Distinctive characters of the languages 295 5. Hypothetical paths of development 297 6. Continuing tendencies, persistent typology, semantic transmutations 303 7. Types of semantic reanalysis 304 References 305 Capitalization 307 1. Introduction 307 2. A case-study: Spanish ser and estar 308 3. The nature of capitalization 314 4. Conclusion 320 References 320 Indo-European *d, *1, and *dl 323 1. The so-called Sabine l 323 2. The data 324 3. Indo-European *dl 327 4. Individual developments 329 References 337 Declension in Old and Middle French Two Opposing Tendencies 339 0. Summary 339 1. Weakening 340 2. Reinforcement and regularization 344 3. Breakdown of the case system 348 4. Conclusion 352 References 354 From Latin Metre to Romance Rhythm 357 0. Introduction 357 1. Metrum and rhythmus 357 2. The parameters of Latin stress 358 3. The emergence of the n-syllable window 361 4. From Latin to Romance prosody 365 5. The demise of quantity sensitivity: Romance rhythm 367 References 370 Diverging Sources of the Perfective Aspect Morphology in Tibeto-Kinnauri External Motivation or Internal Development? 373 1. Introduction 373 2. Aspect morphology in Tibeto-Kinnauri 375 3. Discussion 379 4. Conclusion 385 References 386 On the Origins of the Order of Agreement and Tense Markers 389 1. Introduction 389 2. The cross-linguistic data 390 3. The origins of tense and agreement markers 392 4. Morpheme order 394 5. The origins of T(Agr) 396 6. T(Agr) and word order type 397 7. Concluding remarks 402 References 402 Character-Based Reconstruction of a Linguistic Cladogram 405 1. Introduction 405 2. The method 407 3. Results 412 4. Conclusion 419 References 420 Bringing the Invisible Hand to Cognitive Grammar 421 1. Introduction 421 2. Spread and actuation 422 3. The Invisible Hand 424 4. Cognitive Grammar 426 5. Other cases 430 6. Conclusions 432 References 433 Index 435 'This volume contains papers on general issues of language change, as well as specific studies of non-Germanic languages, including Romance, Slavonic, Japanese, Australian languages, and early Indo-European. A second volume, edited by Richard M. Hogg and Linda van Bergen, will contain papers on Germanic.'