Historical Linguistics 1999: Selected Papers From The 14th International Conference On Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, 9-13 August 1999

HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS 1999 AMSTERDAM STUDIES IN THE THEORY AND HISTORY OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCE General Editor E. F. KONRAD KOERNER (University of Ottawa) Series IV – CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY Advisory Editorial Board Raimo Anttila (Los Angeles); Lyle Campbell (Christchurch, N.Z.) Sheila Embleton (Toronto); John E. Joseph (Edinburgh) Manfred Krifka (Berlin); Hans-Heinrich Lieb (Berlin) E. Wyn Roberts (Vancouver, B.C.); Hans-Jürgen Sasse (Köln) Volume 215 Laurel J. Brinton (ed.) Historical Linguistics 1999. Selected papers from the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, 9-13 August 1999 HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS 1999 SELECTED PAPERS FROM THE 14TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS, VANCOUVER, 9–13 AUGUST 1999 Edited by LAUREL J. BRINTON University of British Columbia with the editorial assistance of Desireé Lundström JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY AMSTERDAM/PHILADELPHIA 8 TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data International Conference on Historical Linguistics (14th : 1999 : Vancouver, B.C.) Historical linguistics 1999 : selected papers from the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, 9–13 August 1999 / edited by Laurel J. Brinton. p. cm. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, issn 0304–0763 ; v. 215) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Historical linguistics--Congresses. I. Brinton, Laurel J. II. Title. III. Series. P140.I5 2001 417’.7--dc21 isbn 90 272 3722 0 (Eur.) / 1 58811 064 8 (US) (Hb; alk. paper) 2001035020 © 2001 – John Benjamins B.V. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. John Benjamins Publishing Co. · P.O.Box 36224· 1020 me Amsterdam · The Netherlands John Benjamins North America · P.O.Box 27519 · Philadelphia pa 19118-0519 · usa This volume is dedicated to the memory of Suzanne Fleischman (1948–2000) SUBJECT "Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, Volume 215" KEYWORDS "" SIZE HEIGHT "220" WIDTH "150" VOFFSET "4"> Table of contents Contributors’ addresses ix Preface xi How far has far from become grammaticalized? Minoji Akimoto 1 Recent advances in the reconstruction of the Proto-Munda verb Gregory D.S. Anderson and Norman H. Zide 13 Multivariable Reanalysis and phonological split Janice M. Aski 31 Are Old English conjunct clauses really verb-final? Kristin Bech 49 Alternation according to person in Italo-Romance Delia Bentley and Thórhallur Eythórsson 63 On ablaut and aspect in the history of Aramaic Vit Bubenik 75 Language change and the phonological lexicon of Korean Young-mee Y. Cho 89 Animals and vegetables, Uto-Aztecan noun derivation, semantic classification, and cultural history Karen Dakin 105 Gradience and linguistic change David Denison 119 Distinctive vowel length in Old French: Evidence and implications Randall Gess 145 Remains of a submerged continent: Preaspiration in the languages of Northwest Europe Gunnar Ólafur Hansson Rapid change among expletive polarity items Jacob Hoeksema 157 175 < rearget="" e=""> "man"> "mar"> "mil"> "mit"> "nic"> "ros"> "stu"> "tar"> "tut"> "vee"> "ven"> "li"> "ni"> "toc"> viii Table of contents The conversational factor in language chang