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Dupuis, Fernande. Dufresne, Monique. Vocaj, Etleva.

Historical linguistics 2007 : selected papers from the 18th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, 6-11 August 2007 / edited by Monique Dufresne, Fernande Dupuis, Etleva Vocaj.

Philadelphia, Pa. :   John Benjamins Pub. Company,   2009.  

x, 311 p. : ill. ;

Current issues in linguistic theory,0304-0763 ; v. 308

9789027248244 (hb : alk. paper)

Foreword & acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I. Phonology: Middle English vowel length in French loanwords / Ashley L. Burnett -- Dental fricatives and stops in Germanic: Deriving diachronic Processes from synchronic variation / Bridget Smith -- Dialect variation and the Dutch diminutive: the role of prosodic templates / Laura Catharine Smith -- Part II. Morphology, syntax and semantics: On the disappearance of genitive types in Middle English: Objective genitives with nouns of love and fear and the nature of syntactic change / Cynthia L. Allen -- An asymmetric view on stage II in Jespersen's cycle in the West Germanic languages / Anne Breitbarth -- Temporal reference and grammaticalization in the Spanish perfect(ive) / Mary T. Copple -- (Un)-interpretable features and grammaticalization / Viviane Deprez -- Imperative morphology in diachrony evidence from the Romance languages / Martin Maiden, Andrew Swearingen & Paul O'Neill -- VO vs V(...)O en franais / Christiane Marchello-Nizia -- On the development of Recipient passives in DO languages: A case study / Chantal Melis & Marcela Flores -- The emergence of DP in the history of English: The role of the mysterious genitive / Fuyo Osawa -- A diachronic view of Psychological verbs with Dative Experiencers in Spanish and Romanian / Maria Luisa Rivero & Constanta Rodica Diaconescu -- On the loss of the masculine genitive plural in Cypriot Greek: Language contact or internal evolution? / Ioanna Sitaridou & Marina Terkourafi -- The rise of peripheral modifiers in the noun phrase / Freek Van de Velde -- Wild variation, random patterns, and uncertain data / Dieter Wanner -- Part III. Sociolinguistics and dialectology: Le changement linguistique dans la langue orale selon deux recherches sur le terrain separees d'un siecle / Montserrat Adam-Aulinas -- Patrons sociolinguistiques: Chez trois generations de locuteurs acadiens / Louise Beaulieu & Wladyslaw Cichocki -- Change of functions of the first person.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Historical linguistics -- Congresses.