Historical linguistics 2001 selected papers from the 15th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Melbourne, 13-17 August 2001 (J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2003)
Includes bibliographical references and index
HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS 2001; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Table of contents; Contributors' addresses; Preface; Language contact and language change in Amazonia; Grammaticalization and the historical development of the genitive in Mainland Scandinavian; Beyond the comparative method?; The transition from early to modern Portuguese; Isomorphism and language change; From purposive/future to present; The formation of periphrastic perfects and passives in Europe; The grammaticalization of movement; Paths of development for modal meanings; On degrammaticalization
This is a selection of papers from the 15th International Conference on Historical Linguistics held in Melbourne 13-17 August 2001, hosted by the Linguistics Program at La Trobe University. The papers range from the general theoretical to the study of particular languages and embrace most areas of linguistics, particularly morpho-syntax