Historical Linguistics 2005: Selected Papers From The 17th International Conference On Historical Linguistics, Madison, Wisconsin, 31 July - 5 August 2005

Historical Linguistics 2005 AMSTERDAM STUDIES IN THE THEORY AND HISTORY OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCE General Editor E.F.K. KOERNER (Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin) Series IV – CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY Advisory Editorial Board Lyle Campbell (Salt Lake City); Sheila Embleton (Toronto) Brian D. Joseph (Columbus, Ohio); John E. Joseph (Edinburgh) Manfred Krifka (Berlin); E. Wyn Roberts (Vancouver, B.C.) Joseph C. Salmons (Madison, Wis.); Hans-Jürgen Sasse (Köln) Volume 284 Historical Linguistics 2005 Selected papers from the 17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Madison, Wisconsin, 31 July – 5 August 2005 Edited by Joseph C. Salmons and Shannon Dubenion-Smith Historical Linguistics 2005 Selected papers from the 17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Madison, Wisconsin, 31 July – 5 August 2005 Edited by Joseph C. Salmons Shannon Dubenion-Smith University of Wisconsin, Madison JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY AMSTERDAM/PHILADELPHIA 4- 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 (17th : 2005 Madison, Wisc.)    Historical linguistics 2005 : selected papers from the 17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Madison, Wisconsin, 31 July-5 August 2005 / edited by Joseph C. Salmons, Shannon Dubenion-Smith. p. cm. -- (Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, ISSN 0304-0763 ; v. 284)  Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Historical linguistics--Congresses. I. Salmons, Joe, 1956- II. Dubenion-Smith, Shannon. III. Title. P140.I5    2005 417'.7--dc22 2007012738 ISBN 978 90 272 4799 5 (Hb; alk. paper) © 2007 – 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 JB[v.20020404] Prn:11/07/2007; 13:09 F: CI284CO.tex / p.1 (47-95) Table of contents Foreword vii Part I. Grammaticalization Lexicalization and grammaticalization all over again Laurel J. Brinton and Elizabeth Closs Traugott 3 Grammaticalization as reduction: Focus constructions in Chiapas Zoque Jan Terje Faarlund 21 Metaphor and teleology do not drive grammaticalization Matthew L. Juge 33 Part II. Syntax and semantics Processing factors in syntactic variation and change: Clitics in Medieval and Renaissance Spanish Miriam Bouzouita 51 Dynamic Syntax and dialogue modelling: Preliminaries for a dialogue-driven account of syntactic change Ruth Kempson and Ronnie Cann 73 An economy approach to the triggering of the Russian instrumental predicate case Nerea Madariaga 103 Change and variation in ga/no conversion in Tokyo Japanese Satoshi Nambu and Kenjiro Matsuda 119 Perfect change: Synchrony meets diachrony Marie-Eve Ritz 133 Variable use of negation in Middle Low German John D. Sundquist 149 Is there a DP in Old English? Johanna L. Wood 167 JB[v.20020404] Prn:11/07/2007; 13:09  F: CI284CO.tex / p.2 (95-132) Table of contents Part III. Morphology Some semantic and pragmatic aspects of case-loss in Old French Richard Ashdowne and John Charles Smi