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Historical Linguistics 1997: Selected Papers from the 13th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Düsseldorf, 10-17 August 1997

By Monika S. Schmid , Jennifer R. Austin , Dieter Stein (Eds.)

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Year
1998
ISBN
9027236690, 9789027236692
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
37 MB (39258021 bytes)
Series
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 164
Pages
419\420
Time added
2014-06-27 09:41:11

Description

This volume presents a selection from the papers given at the 13th International Conference on Historical Linguistics. It offers a window on the current state of the art in historical linguistics: the papers cover a wide range of different languages, different language families, and different approaches to the study of linguistic change, ranging from optimality theory, theories of grammaticalization and the invisible hand, treatments of language contact and creolization to the linguistic consequences of political correctness. Among the languages under discussion are Akkadian, Catalan, Dutch, Finnish, Japanese, Sranan, Western Malayo-Polynesian, Yiddish, and a variety of Romance and Native American languages.

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