{"id":1781,"date":"2011-09-25T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elanguage.net\/blogs\/booknotices\/?p=1781"},"modified":"2011-09-19T09:11:51","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T07:11:51","slug":"historical-linguistics-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/?p=1781","title":{"rendered":"Historical linguistics 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -2em;\"><strong>Historical linguistics 2007:<\/strong> Selected papers from the 18th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, 6\u201311 August 2007. Ed. by <strong>Monique Dufresne<\/strong>, <strong>Fernande Dupuis<\/strong>, and <strong>Etleva Vocaj<\/strong>. (Current issues in linguistic theory 308.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2009. Pp. x, 311. ISBN <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/historical-linguistics-2007-selected-papers-from-the-18th-international-conference-on-historical-linguistics-montreal-6-11-august-2007\/oclc\/495803148&amp;referer=brief_results\">9789027248244<\/a>. $158 (Hb).<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Reviewed by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/asiapacific.anu.edu.au\/people\/personal\/rossm_ling.php\">Malcolm Ross<\/a><\/strong>, <em>The Australian National University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This volume contains twenty-four articles in four parts. All but three concern Romance or Germanic languages. For reasons of space, the author(s) of each article and a brief indication of its content are given.<\/p>\n<p>Part 1 deals with phonology. <strong>Ashley L. Burnett<\/strong> writes on vowel length in French loanwords in Middle English and <strong>Laura Catharine Smith<\/strong> on the distribution of allomorphs of the Dutch diminutive <em>-(e)tje. <\/em><strong>Bridget Smith<\/strong> suggests that variation in the articulation of the dental fricative in American English sheds light on the reflexes of the Proto-Germanic dental fricative.<\/p>\n<p>Part 2 contains twelve articles on morphology, syntax, and semantics. <strong>Cynthia L. Allen<\/strong> examines the Middle English demise of the \u2018God\u2019s love\u2019 construction. <strong>Anne Breitbarth<\/strong> reanalyzes the development of bipartite negation in West Germanic. <strong>Mary T. Copple<\/strong> shows that in some Peninsular Spanish varieties the present perfect is being grammaticalized as a perfective. <strong>Viviane D\u00e9prez<\/strong> presents a minimalist analysis of grammaticalizations in the DPs of French-based creoles. <strong>Martin Maiden<\/strong>, <strong>Andrew Swearingen<\/strong>, and <strong>Paul O\u2019Neill<\/strong> show how imperatives have played a special diachronic role in Romance verbal paradigms. <strong>Christiane Marchello-Nizia<\/strong> describes how cohesion between the French verb and the object NP has increased over time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chantal Melis<\/strong> and <strong>Marcela Flores<\/strong> describe the emergence of the Spanish \u2018recipient passive\u2019. <strong>Fuyo Osawa<\/strong> argues that English genitive <em>-\u2019s<\/em> was reanalyzed as a clitic earlier than the loss of other inflectional cases. <strong>Mar\u00eda Luisa Rivero<\/strong> and <strong>Constanta Rodica Diaconscu<\/strong> review the history of dative experiencer constructions in Spanish and Romanian. <strong>Ioanna Sitaridou<\/strong> and <strong>Marina Terkourafi <\/strong>examine the replacement of the genitive plural ending <em>-\u014dn<\/em> by accusative plural <em>-ous<\/em> in Cypriot Greek masculine nouns. <strong>Freek van de Velde<\/strong> looks at the increasing use of pre-determiner modifiers in Dutch and English. <strong>Dieter Wanner<\/strong> examines the ordering of infinitive and pronominal clitic in the history of Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>Part 3 contains five articles on sociolinguistics and dialectology. <strong>Montserrat Adam-Aulinas<\/strong> examines a century of changes in Girona Catalan verbal morphology. <strong>Louise Beaulieu<\/strong> and <strong>Wladyslaw Cichocki<\/strong> analyze the distribution of Acadian French third-person plural verbal suffixes. <strong>Vicky Tzuyin Lai<\/strong> and <strong>Zygmunt Frajzyngier<\/strong> track changes in first-person pronouns from Classical Chinese to Mandarin. The two remaining articles are panel and trend studies of Vinderup Danish by <strong>Signe Weden Sch\u00f8ning<\/strong> and <strong>Inge Lise Pedersen<\/strong> and of Petrer Catalan by <strong>Orland Verd\u00f9<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Part 4, \u2018Tools and methodology\u2019, has four articles. <strong>Mah\u00e9 Ben Hamed<\/strong> and <strong>S\u00e9bastien Flavier<\/strong> describe a pilot version of an online database of sound changes. <strong>Fernande Dupuis<\/strong> and <strong>Ludovic Lebart<\/strong> describe software tools designed to extract generalizations and measures of intra-textual variation from text corpora. <strong>Helge Sandoy<\/strong> correlates innovation with community type in Norwegian dialects. <strong>Valentyna Skybina<\/strong> and <strong>Iryna Galutskikh<\/strong> present a diachronic comparison of English and German lexicons<\/p>\n<p>Many of the articles could have been improved by careful copyediting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historical linguistics 2007: Selected papers from the 18th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, 6\u201311 August 2007. Ed. by Monique Dufresne, Fernande Dupuis, and Etleva Vocaj. (Current issues in linguistic theory 308.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2009. Pp. x, 311. ISBN 9789027248244. $158 (Hb). Reviewed by Malcolm Ross, The Australian National University This volume contains twenty-four [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1782,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions\/1782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}