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Full Description
This volume collects ten studies that propose modern methodologies of analyzing and explaining language change in the case of various morpho-phonological and morpho-syntactic characteristics. The studies were first presented in the fourth, fifth and sixth workshops at the "Language Variation and Change in Ancient and Medieval Europe" summer schools, organized on the island of Naxos, Cyclades, Greece and online between 2019 and 2021. The book is divided into two parts that both focus on modern tools and methodologies of analyzing and accounting for language change. The first part focuses on common directions of change in Indo-European languages and beyond, and the second part emphasizes explanations that reveal the role of language contact. The volume promotes a dialogue between approaches to language change having their starting point in structural and typological aspects of the history of languages on the one hand, and approaches concentrating on external factors on the other. Throughthis dialogue, the volume enriches knowledge on the contrast or complementarity of internally- and externally-motivated causes of language change.
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part I. The role of typological aspects and structural characteristics in language change.- Chapter 2: The prehistory of weak Adjective Phrases in Old Norse.- Chapter 3: The development of absolute participial constructions in Greek .- Chapter 4: Synecdochic chains and semantic change. The case of the upper limbs in Homeric Greek .- Chapter 5: The development of the copular participial periphrases in Ancient Greek: Evidence for syntactic change and reconstruction.- Chapter 6: Syntactic reanalysis and analogical generalization in the Late Modern English period: Verb-adjective combinations in focus.- Chapter 7: The evolution of temporal adverbs into discourse markers: Grammaticalization or pragmaticalization? The case of Romanian atunci 'then' and apoi 'afterwards' .- Part II. Linguistic diachronies and the role of language contact .- Chapter 8: Long-distance metathesis of liquids in Romance. A Property Theory analysis of diachronic change .- Chapter 9: Documenting Corfioto: Evidence for contact-induced grammaticalisation in the Romance variety of Corfu.- Chapter 10: Gender hypercharacterization in Modern Judeo-Spanish adjectives.- Chapter 11: The RUKI-rule in Indo-Iranian and the early contacts with Uralic.
