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Perspectives on language structure and language change: studies in honor of Henning Andersen / edited by Lars Heltoft, Iván Igartua, Brian D. Joseph, Kirsten Jeppesen Kragh, Lene Schøsler. — 1 online resource. — (Current issues in linguistic theory). — <URL:http://elib.fa.ru/ebsco/2156439.pdf>.

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Table of Contents

  • PERSPECTIVES ON LANGUAGE STRUCTURE AND LANGUAGE CHANGE
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Table of contents
  • Preface
  • Perspectives on language structure and language change: An introduction
    • Theory of language change
    • Indexicality
    • Problems of reanalysis
    • Actualization
    • Language change and diachronic typology in Balto-Slavic
    • Concluding remarks
    • References
  • Part I. On the theory of language change
    • Andersen (1973) and dichotomies of change
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. Evolutive versus adaptive and its historical context
        • 2.1 Evolutive versus adaptive in Andersen (1973)
        • 2.2 Earlier conceptions of this distinction
      • 3. Evolutive versus adaptive and ADC’s reception
        • 3.1 Initial survey
        • 3.2 The continued development of the evolutive/adaptive dichotomy
        • 3.3 Reception of evolutive versus adaptive: The first twenty-five years
      • 4. Why this reception for ADC and the evolutive/adaptive distinction?
        • 4.1 Generative rules?
        • 4.2 Competing terminological distinctions
      • 5. More recent attention for ADC and the evolutive/adaptive distinction
        • 5.1 “Adaptive sound change” in Dahl (2004)
        • 5.2 A recent resurgence?
      • 6. Conclusion
      • References
    • Induction and tradition: “As time goes by …” – Play it again!
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. Language acquisition and change in the context of Total Human Evolutionary Communication
      • 2. Language acquisition and change in the context of Total Human Evolutionary Communication
        • 2.1 Cognitive Consciousness and Communicative Consciousness
        • 2.2 Perception vs. Communication
        • 2.3 The same old story: The trivium of Communion, Practice, and Tradition
        • 2.3 The same old story: The trivium of Communion, Practice, and Tradition
      • 3. The architectonic of languaging: Total Human Evolutionary Communication
        • 3.1 The levels of Total Human Evolutionary Cognition and Communication (THECC)
        • 3.2 The evolution of Languaging Semiosis into Language Gaming
        • 3.3 The evolution of Language Gaming
        • 3.4 Language Gaming as a teleological process: Energeia – entelechy and syntaxis
        • 3.4 Language Gaming as a teleological process: Energeia – entelechy and syntaxis
        • 3.5 The social deontology of Language Gaming
        • 3.6 The two peripheral phases of Language Gaming: Dynamis and ergon – paradeigma and syntagma
        • 3.6 The two peripheral phases of Language Gaming: Dynamis and ergon – paradeigma and syntagma
      • 4. Communication, meta-communication, and Universals of Language Gaming (the ‘three-in-one’)
        • 4.1 Communion (panchronic)
        • 4.2 Practice (synchronic)
        • 4.3 Tradition (diachronic)
          • 4.3.1 Abduction – discovery: Linguistic experiences as surprising facts to be explained by a linguistic competence (G1)
          • 4.3.1 Abduction – discovery: Linguistic experiences as surprising facts to be explained by a linguistic competence (G1)
          • 4.3.2 Deduction – experimentation: The trial and error testing of the predicted consequences of the hypothesized linguistic competence (G1) as put to Practice (G2)
          • 4.3.3 Induction – confirmation: The Conventionalization of the Communicative Competence (G3)
          • 4.3.3 Induction – confirmation: The Conventionalization of the Communicative Competence (G3)
      • 5. “As time goes by …” – Play it again! – Induction and Tradition
        • 5.1 The semiotics of Tradition – the Competence and its stratal architectonic
        • 5.2 The evolution of the Human Language Faculty and the deontological Linguistic Institution
        • 5.3 Language change, phylo-, onto-, and glosso-genetically
      • 6. Conclusion
      • As time goes by: For HA
      • References
    • Approaching the typology and diachrony of morphological reversals
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. Typology of inverted morphological relations
        • 2.1 Types of inversion
        • 2.2 Full morphological reversals
        • 2.3 Partial morphological reversals
        • 2.4 Morphological quasi-reversals
        • 2.5 Summary
      • 3. Lessons from diachrony: Accounting for the rise of reversals
        • 3.1 Old French declensional classes
        • 3.2 The expression of paral reference in Upper Sorbian
      • 4. The economy of marker inversion and the role of morphological ambiguity
      • 5. Conclusion
      • References
    • Deconstructing markedness in sound change typology: Notes on θ > f and f > θ
      • 1. Asymmetries in sound change typology
      • 2. Perceptual similarity and sound change: The case of θ > f
      • 3. θ > f without pre-existing /f/?
      • 4. Frequency of θ > f
      • 5. Is there f > θ sound change?
      • 6. Explanations
      • 7. Markedness?
      • Acknowledgment
      • References
  • Part II. Indexicality
    • Diachronic morphology, indexical function and a critique of the morphome analysis: The content and expression of Danish forstå
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. Autonomous morphology and the stand morphome
      • 3. Content and expression of morphology
        • 3.1 The problem with autonomous syntax and morphology
        • 3.2 Sign relations in grammar
      • 4. The history of forstå and overvære
        • 4.1 Forstå
        • 4.2 Overvære
      • 5. Explaining forstå and overvære
        • 5.1 Compositionality and metaphoricity
        • 5.2 Indexicality
        • 5.3 Isomorphism and non-isomorphism
      • 6. Conclusion
      • References
    • Word order as grammaticalised semiotic systems
      • 1. Introduction: The neglect of word order
      • 2. Symbolic and indexical signs in morphology
        • 2.1 Andersen’s analysis of Latin cucurristi
        • 2.2 Indexicality in the analysis of case and word order
        • 2.3 The symbolic function of constructional case
      • 3. Word order systems as diagrams of morphosyntactic structure
        • 3.1 Valency, construction and topological diagrams: Danish direct objects and prepositional objects
        • 3.2 The semantic change of several and diagrammatic mappings
      • 4. Word order differences as symbolic signs
        • 4.1 Diagrammatic representations of information structure
        • 4.2 Germanic V2 examples
      • 5. The example of Old English
        • 5.1 Old English V2 order and SOV order
        • 5.2 Topological integrity of pronominal forms
        • 5.3 Examples for topological generalisation
        • 5.4 The grammatical function of the second position in Old English
      • 6. Conclusion
      • Sources
        • References
      • Appendix. Tables of central examples from this article
  • Part III. Problems of reanalysis
    • Anticausative and passive in Vedic: Which way reanalysis?
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. Structural characteristics of passive vs. anticausative in Vedic
      • 3. Historical relationship between passives and anticausatives
        • 3.1 Early accounts
        • 3.2 Kulikov’s accounts and a possible alternative
        • 3.3 Another alternative account
        • 3.4 A further possibility
        • 3.5 Evaluation and conclusions
      • References
    • Grammaticalization and degrammati(calizati)on in the development of the Iranian verb system
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. The realignment of the erstwhile possessive construction as the finite verb form
      • 2. The realignment of the erstwhile possessive construction as the finite verb form
      • 3. The establishment of the analytic perfect in early new Persian
      • 4. Degrammati(calizati)on of the copula in retrospective (perfect) aspect
      • 5. Grammaticalization in new Persian of the adverb hamēw ‘always’
      • 6. Future tense
      • 7. Passive diathesis
      • 8. Conclusion
      • Text (Middle Persian)
      • References
    • Aspects of grammaticalization and reanalysis in the voice domain in the transition from Latin to early Italo-Romance
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. Auxiliarization, light verb constructions and voice
        • 2.1 Auxiliaries vs light verbs
          • 2.1.1 Auxiliarization and changes in the argument structure of predicates
          • 2.1.2 Light/vector/serial verbs and argument structure
      • 3. Light verbs and (passive) auxiliaries in Late Latin and early (Italo-)Romance
      • 3. Light verbs and (passive) auxiliaries in Late Latin and early (Italo-)Romance
        • 3.1 Fieri and its early Italo-Romance continuants
        • 3.2 Venire in Late Latin and early Italo-Romance
      • 4. Origin of BECOME and COME as voice markers and light verbs
        • 4.1 Light verb behaviour of the passive auxiliary essere ‘be’
      • 5. Auxiliaries, light verbs and change in the passage to Italo-Romance
      • 6. Conclusions
      • Acknowledgements
      • Abbreviations
      • Old Italian sources
        • References
    • From preverbal to postverbal in the early history of Japanese
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. Complex predicates in Old Japanese
      • 3. A diachronic understanding of the Japanese aktionsart verbs
      • 4. Other similar developments
      • 5. Conclusion
      • Acknowledgements
      • References
    • Reanalysis in the Russian past tense: The gerundial perfect
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. New perfects in Slavic
        • 2.1 The possessive perfect
      • 3. New perfects in Russian
        • 3.1 The Russian possessive perfect
        • 3.2 The Russian gerundial perfect
      • 4. The source and chronology of the GP
      • 5. From secondary to primary predicates
        • 5.1 Subordination by a finite verb
        • 5.2 Reanalysis of the secondary predicate
        • 5.3 Actualization of the reanalysis of the secondary predicate
        • 5.4 Additional reanalysis and actualization
        • 5.5 Clause subordination as actualization and extension
        • 5.6 Interchangeability of predicative participles and the l-participle
        • 5.7 Completed reanalysis and actualization of the secondary predicates
      • 6. Coordination of the GP with present tense
      • 7. The morphology of the gerundial perfect
      • 8. Conclusion
      • References
    • From a single lexical unit to multiple grammatical paradigms
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. Theoretical frame
        • 2.1 Grammation and regrammation
        • 2.2 Paradigms
      • 3. Constructions of presentation and focus
        • 3.1 Definitions
        • 3.2 Inventory of structures
          • 3.2.1 C’est X
          • 3.2.2 Il y a X
          • 3.2.3 Il est X
          • 3.2.4 Voici/voilà X
          • 3.2.5 Avoir X qui
          • 3.2.6 X est là qui
          • 3.2.7 Je vois X qui
        • 3.3 Conclusion on partial paradigms
      • 4. Conclusion
      • References
    • Morphosyntactic reanalysis in Australian languages: Three studies
      • 1. Introduction and overview
      • 2. Boundary loss with creation of morphological zero
      • 3. Reanalysis of alignment: Ergative to accusative
      • 4. Clause fusion to auxiliary constructions and inflections marking Associated Motion
      • 5. Summary and conclusions
      • References
    • Definiteness in Germanic and Balto-Slavic: Historical and comparative perspectives
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. Germanic
        • 2.1 Definiteness formations
        • 2.2 Functional and morphological developments
      • 3. Baltic
      • 4. Slavic
      • 5. Conclusion: Areal patterning of definiteness in Germanic and Balto-Slavic
      • 5. Conclusion: Areal patterning of definiteness in Germanic and Balto-Slavic
      • References
  • Part IV. Actualization
    • Diatopy and frequency as indicators of spread: Accentuation in Bulgarian dialects
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. The data
        • 2.1 Sources
        • 2.2. Description
        • 2.3 Preparation for analysis
        • 2.4 Geographical distribution
        • 2.5 A second data set: “Additional accentuation”
        • 2.6 Historical commentary: Double accent
      • 3. Conclusion
      • References
    • Suppletion or illusion?: The diachrony of suppletive derivation
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. Issues
      • References
  • Part V. Language change and diachronic typology in Balto-Slavic
    • A complicated relationship: Balto-Slavic accentual mobility as a non-trivial shared innovation
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. The Balto-Slavic problem
      • 3. The Baltic problem
      • 4. Non-trivial shared innovations
      • 5. Genealogically shared innovations vs. contact-induced shared innovations
      • 6. Accentual mobility as a shared innovation
        • 6.1 Introductory remarks
        • 6.2 Pedersen’s Law, Barytonesis, Accent Retraction: Kortlandt
        • 6.3 Saussure–Pedersen’s Law, Proto-Vasil’ev–Dolobko’s Law: Jasanoff
        • 6.4 Mobility Law: Olander
      • 7. Conclusion
      • References
    • Name-calling: The Russian ‘new Vocative’ and its status
      • 1. Introduction: What is a Vocative?
      • 2. The Russian “new Vocative” and its peculiarities
        • 2.1 Pragmatic peculiarities
        • 2.2 Lexical peculiarities
        • 2.3 Syntactic peculiarities
        • 2.4 Morphophonological peculiarities
        • 2.5 Phonological peculiarities
      • 3. Similar peculiarities elsewhere in Russian and Slavic
        • 3.1 Pragmatic peculiarities
        • 3.2 Lexical peculiarities
        • 3.3 Syntactic outliers
        • 3.4 Morphophonological outliers
        • 3.5 Phonological outliers
      • 4. The emergence of a “new Vocative” in North Saami
      • 5. Conclusions
      • References
    • Changes of tense and modality in Late Mediaeval Slovene: Transference, extension or both?
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. Slovene between the Freising fragments and the Rateče manuscript
        • 2.1 The past tenses in the Freising fragments
        • 2.2 The Rateče manuscript
      • 3. Trubar’s Catechismus 1550: How much did Luther’s Catechismus influence Trubar’s Slovene
      • 4. Conclusions
      • Abbreviations
      • References
  • Index

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