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This is the first of two volumes deriving from papers presented at the Nineteenth Annual UVM Linguistics Symposium held in Milwaukee in April 1990. The contributions in this volume investigate the general question of what constitutes an explanation of diachronic change, and illustrate their proposals in the context of various specific problems in historical linguistics. The present volume also includes a solicited paper by Eric P. Hamp (“On remote reconstruction”) that addresses the validity of distant reconstructions like those of Nostratic and Proto-World. <i>Content: Garry W. Davis &amp; Gregory K. Iverson:</i> Foreword <i>Werner Abraham:</i> Event structure accounting for the emerging periphrastic tenses and the passive voice in German <i>Raimo Anttila:</i> Historical explanation and historical linguistics <i>J. Clancy Clements:</i> Elements of resistance in language contact-induced change <i>Alice Faber:</i> Articulatory variability, categorical perception, and the inevitability of sound change <i>Monika Forner, Jeanette K. Gundel, Kathleen Houlihan &amp; Gerald Sanders:</i> On the historical development of marked forms <i>Eric P. Hamp:</i> On misusing similarity <i>Hans Henri

Author

Iverson, Gregory K.; Davis, Garry W.

Publisher

John Benjamins Publishing Company; Benjamins Publishing Company, John

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9781556191398

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Linguistics, Language Learning