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Title Explanation in historical linguistics / edited by Garry W. Davis and Gregory K. Iverson.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 1992.

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 238 pages) : illustrations.
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Series Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 84
Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 84. 0304-0763
Note Papers presented the 19th annual University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Linguistics Symposium, which was held Apr. 20-22, 1990.
Contents Event structure accounting for the emerging periphrastic tenses and the passive voice in German / Werner Abraham -- Historical explanation and historical linguistics / Raimo Anttila -- Elements of resistance in contact-induced language change / Joseph Clancy Clements -- Articulatory variability, categorical perception, and the inevitability of sound change / Alice Faber -- On the historical development of marked forms / Monika Forner, Jeanete K. Gundel, Kathleen Houlihan, Gerald Sanders -- On misusing similarity / Eric P. Hamp -- Reconstruction and syntactic typology: a plea for a different approach / Hans Henrich Hock -- Diachronic explanation: putting speakers back into the picture / Brian D. Joseph -- Grammatical prototypes and competing motivaitons in a theory of linguistic change / Suzanne Kemmer -- Understanding standards / Flora Klein-Andreu -- Rules and analogy / Carol Lynn Moder -- The development of perfect reduplication in Indo-European / Mary Niepokuj -- A look at the data for a global etymology: *tik f̀€inger' / Joe Salmons.
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Subject Historical linguistics -- Congresses.
Historical linguistics.
Explanation (Linguistics) -- Congresses.
Explanation (Linguistics)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Davis, Garry W.
Iverson, Gregory K.
Linguistics Symposium of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (19th : 1990)
Other Form: Print version: Explanation in historical linguistics. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 1992 (DLC) 92025765 (OCoLC)26212391
ISBN 9789027277503 (electronic book)
9027277508 (electronic book)
1556191391
9781556191398