Variation and ReconstructionThomas D. Cravens John Benjamins Publishing, 2006 - 223 pagina's The relation of language variation to reconstructed languages and to the methodology of reconstruction has long been neglected. The articles in the present volume consider this relationship from a number of different angles, with a number of different focuses. Several of the papers discuss evidence from Germanic, either Proto-Germanic (Joseph, Schwink), or daughter languages such as Dutch (Goss & Howell), Afrikaans (Roberge), Newcastle English (Milroy), and a Wisconsin German dialect (Geiger & Salmons). Other papers look at Italian (Cravens), Spanish (Harris-Northall), and the non-Indo-European languages or families Aramaic (Miller), and Proto-Hmong-Mien (Ratliff), and the Southeast Asian languages Phan Rang Cham and Tsat (Thurgood). In doing so they bring together a number of interconnected issues which are of current concern in comparative and historical linguistics. |
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VARIATION AND RECONSTRUCTION INTRODUCTION | 1 |
MICROVARIABILITY IN TIME AND SPACE RECONSTRUCTING THE PAST FROM THE PRESENT | 17 |
RECONSTRUCTING VARIATION AT SHALLOW TIME DEPTHS THE HISTORICAL PHONETICS OF 19TH CENTURY GERMAN DIALECTS I... | 37 |
SOCIAL AND STRUCTURAL FACTORS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF DUTCH URBAN DIALECTS IN THEEARLY MODERN PERIOD | 59 |
REDUCTION OF VARIATION AS A FEATURE OF THE STANDARDIZATION OF CASTILIAN SPANISH AROUND 1500 | 89 |
ON PROJECTING VARIATION BACK INTO A PROTOLANGUAGE WITH PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO GERMANIC EVIDENCE AND SOM... | 103 |
VARIATION OF DIRECT SPEECH COMPLEMENTIZERS IN ACHAEMENID ARAMAIC DOCUMENTS FROM FIFTH CENTURY BCE EGYPT | 119 |
LANGUAGE CHANGE AND THE SPEAKERON THE DISCOURSE OF HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS | 145 |
PREFIXVARIATION AND RECONSTRUCTION | 165 |
ON RECONSTRUCTING A LINGUISTIC CONTINUUM IN CAPE DUTCH 17101840 | 179 |
THE RECONSTRUCTION OF VARIABILITY IN PROTOGERMANIC GENDER | 201 |
VARIATION AS A REFLECTION OF CONTACT NOTES FROM SOUTHEAST ASIA | 213 |
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The series Current Issues in Linguistic Theory | 224 |
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Afrikaans Amsterdam Aramaic attested basilectal borrowing Cape Dutch Cape Dutch Pidgin century Cham Comparative Method complementizer Constantijn Huygens correspondence Dane County daughter languages diachronic diminutive suffix diphthongization direct speech discourse discussion disyllabic Dorp evidence example Folmer gender German dialects glottal Gran Conquista Hague Harris-Northall High German historical linguistics Hmong Hmong-Mien Hmongic Holland Huygens immigrants infinitive initial innovation involved Khoikhoi Kölsch Labov language change language contact letters lexical linguistic change matrix verb medieval mesolectal Mienic mijn Milroy native nouns Old High German origin Pa-hng palatalized patterns phonetic phonological Pidgin Porten praescriptio present pronoun Proto-Germanic Proto-Indo-European proto-language proto-language variation realizations reconstruct variation Roberge scribe social sociolinguistic sound change speaker-based speakers Standard German Standard Italian stops structure suggest syntactic Table texts Trigardt diary Tsat Tuscan University Press urban variability variety velar vernacular voiceless voicing vowel White Hmong Wisconsin word