Historical Linguistics 2011: Selected Papers From The 20th International Conference On Historical Linguistics, Osaka, 25-30 July 2011

HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS 2011 CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY AMSTERDAM STUDIES IN THE THEORY AND HISTORY OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCE – Series IV General Editor E.F.K. KOERNER Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin [email protected] Current Issues in Linguistic Theory (CILT) is a theory-oriented series which welcomes contributions from scholars who have significant proposals to make towards the advancement of our understanding of language, its structure, functioning and development. CILT has been established in order to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of linguistic opinions of scholars who do not necessarily accept the prevailing mode of thought in linguistic science. It offers an outlet for meaningful contributions to the current linguistic debate, and furnishes the diversity of opinion which a healthy discipline must have. A complete list of titles in this series can be found on http://benjamins.com/catalog/cilt Advisory Editorial Board Sheila Embleton (Toronto) Elly van Gelderen (Tempe, Ariz.) John E. Joseph (Edinburgh) Manfred Krifka (Berlin) Martin Maiden (Oxford) Martha Ratliff (Detroit, Mich.) E. Wyn Roberts (Vancouver, B.C.) Joseph C. Salmons (Madison, Wis.) Klaas Willems (Ghent) Volume 326 Ritsuko Kikusawa and Lawrence A. Reid (eds.) Historical Linguistics 2011 Selected papers from the 20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Osaka, 25–30 July 2011 HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS 2011 SELECTED PAPERS FROM THE 20TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS, OSAKA, 25–30 JULY 2011 Edited by RITSUKO KIKUSAWA National Museum of Ethnology, Japan / The Graduate University of Advanced Studies, Japan LAWRENCE A. REID University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY AMSTERDAM/PHILADELPHIA 8 TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the 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 (20th : 2011 : Osaka) Historical Linguistics 2011 : Selected papers from the 20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Osaka, 25-30 July 2011 / Edited by Ritsuko Kikusawa and Lawrence A. Reid. p. cm. (Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series