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HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS 1987
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 Henning Andersen (Los Angeles); Raimo Anttila (Los Angeles) Thomas V. Gamkrelidze (Tbilisi); Hans-Heinrich Lieb (Berlin) J. Peter Maher (Chicago); Ernst Pulgram (Ann Arbor, Mich.) E. Wyn Roberts (Vancouver, B.C.); Danny Steinberg (Tokyo)
Volume 66
Henning Andersen and Konrad Koerner (eds) Historical Linguistics 1987: Papers from the 8th International Conference on Historical Linguistics
HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS 1987 PAPERS FROM THE 8TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS (8. ICHL) (Lille, 31 August - 4 September 1987)
Edited by
HENNING ANDERSEN State University of New York at Buffalo and KONRAD KOERNER University of Ottawa
JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY AMSTERDAM/PHILADELPHIA 1990
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data International Conference on Historical Linguistics (8th : 1987 : Lille, France) Historical linguistics, 1987 : papers from the 8th International Conference on Histori cal Linguistics (8. ICHL) : Lille, 31 August-4 September 1987 / edited by Henning Andersen and Konrad Koerner. p. cm. - (Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, ISSN 0304-0763; v. 66) English and French. Organized by Thomas Fraser. 1. Historical linguistics ~ Congresses. 2. Indo-European languages - History - Congres ses. I. Andersen, Henning, 1934. II. Koerner, E. F. K. III. Fraser, Thomas (Thomas K. H.) IV. Title. V. Series. P140.I5 1987 417'.7-dc20 89-26711 ISBN 90 272 3563 5 (alk. paper) CIP © Copyright 1990 - 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.
FOREWORD
The 8th International Conference on Historical Linguistics was held in Lille, France from 31 August to 4 September 1987 under the auspices of the Université de Lille III. The conference was organized by Professor Thomas Fraser, President of the International Society for Historical Linguistics for the term 1985-1987. It was a highly successful meeting, both in academic terms and by the spirit of conviviality that reigned from its official opening by Monsieur Alain Lottin, President of the Université de Lille III, till the festive banquet which marked its end. As Secretary of the Society, I am pleased to have this opportunity to record here the gratitude of the participants in the confer ence to our hosts in Lille, Thomas Fraser, his colleagues, and the staff and students who made the meeting so enjoyable for all. Due to unforeseen circumstances the preparation of this volume was held up for over a year after the conference. In November 1988 I volun teered to edit the conference proceedings. Unfortunately, additional delays occurred and I would hardly have succeeded in concluding this task at this date if Konrad Koerner had not offered his assistance. Konrad Koerner assumed responsibility for the French-language papers, while I edited the papers in English. We owe thanks to our assistants, Nancy Allessandra Remondi, who keyboarded most of the French papers, and Betty Brown, who helped me. Buffalo, New York, July 1989
Henning Andersen
Contents Foreword
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Henning Andersen The structure of drift
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Kristjan Amason Conflicting teleologies: drift and normalization in the history of Icelandic phonology
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Bernard H. Bichakjian Language change: cyclical or linear? The case of the Romance future
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Lyle Campbell Syntactic reconstruction and Finno-Ugric
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Jan Te