The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Diachronic and Historical Linguistics, 5 Volume Set

The first multi-volume reference work dedicated entirely to the field of diachronic linguistics The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Diachronic and Historical Linguistics is a state-of-the-art resource that explores the mechanisms underlying linguistic evolution. Bridging the gap between theoretical models and empirical research, this comprehensive work connects linguistics with allied disciplines such as psychology, anthropology, sociology, and biology, and provides an enriched understanding of how language interacts with human society and cognition. Contributions from more than 150 leading scholars cover an unparalleled range of key topics, from phonetics and syntax to semantics, pragmatics, and beyond. Spanning five volumes, the Companion combines cutting-edge theoretical perspectives with detailed case studies from a variety of language families, including underrepresented and non-verbal languages, such as sign languages. By examining the interaction of linguistic systems with societal and environmental factors, this landmark work offers a robust framework for investigating the dynamics of language variation and historical development. Synthesizing decades of groundbreaking research while paving the way for new discoveries, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Diachronic and Historical Linguistics: Presents insights from diverse theoretical frameworks and methodologies in one comprehensive collection Features in-depth analyses of diverse languages and language families, including lesser-studied languages Explores the dynamics of language change within and across speakers, communities, and societies Highlights the role of computational tools and statistical methods in advancing diachronic research Establishes connections with related fields to foster interdisciplinary collaboration The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Diachronic and Historical Linguistics is ideal for advanced undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate students in linguistics, particularly those taking courses on diachronic linguistics, historical linguistics, and language change. It is an indispensable reference for researchers and practitioners in fields intersecting with language evolution, including academic and professional linguists, philologists, and anthropologists engaged in exploring the complexities of language development and change.

Thematic List of Contents xiii Editors xvii Contributors xix Preface xxix Volume I Diachronic Linguistics: An Overview 1 Joseph Salmons Abruptness in Language Change 19 Graeme Trousdale Acoustic-Perceptual Factors in the Actuation of Sound Change 37 James Kirby and Jonathan Harrington Acquisition and Learnability 75 Ailis Cournane Alignment Change 95 Edith Aldridge Analogy and Extension 123 David Fertig Approaches to the Comparative Linguistics of Sign Languages 143 Justin M. Power and Keiko Sagara Argument Structure 165 Leonid Kulikov Aspectual Changes: Aktionsart versus Perfectivity 199 Amalia Moser Assimilation and Dissimilation Processes in Sound Change 225 Joachim Kokkelmans and Eirini Apostolopoulou At the Interfaces: Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Sources of Phonological Change 251 Holly Kennard and Aditi Lahiri Autonomy of Morphology: Paradigmatic Structure in Diachrony 275 Borja Herce (Basic) Word Order 293 Lieven Danckaert Borrowing of Linguistic Rules 317 Metin Ba˘grıacık Causality at the Interfaces: Non-Syntactic Triggers of Syntactic Change 343 Tara Struik Chain Shifts 369 Monica Nesbitt and Samson Lotven Change in Contrastive Hierarchies 391 Will Oxford Changes across the Lifespan 409 Isabelle Buchstaller and James Grama Changes from Below and from Above 437 Lauren Hall-Lew Changing Patterns of Deixis in the Nominal Domain 455 Alexandra Simonenko Changing Patterns of Deixis in the Verbal Domain 485 Mario Squartini Code-Switching 505 Ad Backus Comparative Method and Comparative Reconstruction 527 Koen Bostoen and Martine Robbeets Complex Predicate Formation 551 Veronika Heged˝us Compounding 571 Angela Ralli Computational Models of Semantic Change 595 Nina Tahmasebi, Andrey Kutuzov, Haim Dubossarsky, and Mario Giulianelli Conditioning 629 Pavel Iosad Volume II Configurationality: Changing Patterns of Morphology and Syntax 657 Adam Ledgeway Contact and Borrowing 691 Anthony Grant Convergence and Linguistic Areas 713 Victor A. Friedman and Brian D. Joseph Counting Systems 729 Brigitte L.M. Bauer Cyclicity 755 John W.W. Powell and Elly van Gelderen (De)Grammaticalization 783 Muriel Norde Deletion (aphaeresis, syncope, apocope) 813 Daniel Recasens Derivation 835 Carola Trips and Charles Yang Diachronic Creole Syntax: Lessons from Cabo Verdean, Haitian, and Sranan 863 Marlyse Baptista and Ariana Bancu Diachronic Patterns of Affixation 889 Judith Meinschaefer Diachronic Typological Universals 917 Shelece Easterday Diachrony and the Bases of Synchronic Regularity 953 Stephen R. Anderson Diachrony of Morphological Strategies 973 Ivan Igartua Dialectology 1001 Tommaso Balsemin, Emanuela Sanfelici, and Cecilia Poletto Directionality 1033 Katalin E. Kiss Economy 1061 Anna Roussou Ellipsis 1083 Remus Gergel and Sonia Cyrino The Emergence of Determiners across Time 1115 Anne Carlier Endogeny and Exogeny 1169 Marianne Mithun Evolution of the Structural Encoding of Discourse Functions 1195 Augustin Speyer Exaptation and Related Processes of Language Change 1223 Ilse Wischer Family Tree Model 1245 Thomas Pellard, Robin J. Ryder, and Guillaume Jacques Folk Etymology and Contamination 1279 Martin Maiden Frequency 1299 Dirk Pijpops and Eva Zehentner Genre Variation and Change across Registers of Writing 1327 Irma Taavitsainen, Matylda Włodarczyk, and Jukka Tyrkko Grammar Competition and Variational Learning 1355 Joel Wallenberg, Henri Kauhanen, George Walkden, and Caroline Heycock Volume III Hypothetical Routes from Parataxis to Hypotaxis 1387 Katrin Axel-Tober and Helmut Weis Illocutionary Force: Encoding Utterance Meaning and Function through Time 1415 Roland Hinterholzl and Nicola Munaro Indirect Language Contact and Pragmatic Borrowing 1443 Elizabeth Peterson Inertia and Anti-Inertia Theories of Syntactic Change 1461 Chris H. Reintges Inflectional Change and Morphological Theory 1493 Nigel Vincent Information Structure in Diachronic Change 1511 Marco Coniglio and Esther Rinke Insertion (prosthesis, epenthesis) 1541 Nancy Hall On Language Acquisition as the Locus of Reanalysis 1567 Esther Rinke, Jurgen M. Meisel, and Georg A. Kaiser Language Shift, Obsolescence, and Death 1591 Joshua R. Brown and Michael T. Putnam Lenition and Fortition: Environments, Processes, and Representations 1609 Andras Cser Lexical Change and Stability 1631 Steven N. Dworkin and Philip Durkin Lexical Frequency and Diffusion 1649 Vsevolod Kapatsinski Lexicalization 1673 Alain Peyraube Life Cycle of Phonological Processes 1693 Michael Ramsammy Loss and Leveling 1717 Joshua Bousquette Markedness, Naturalness, and Complexity 1739 Nikolaus Ritt Mechanisms of Change in Lexical Semantics 1761 Karlien Franco Mergers and Splits 1781 Sarah Babinski Metathesis 1803 Ander Egurtzegi Mixed Languages 1827 Jesse Stewart Modality and Mood 1855 Francesca Dell’Oro Morphing Creole Languages 1887 Fabiola Henri and Jose Carlos Antonio Perez Vargas Morphological Agreement 1913 Paolo Milizia Morphological Reanalysis: Recycling Old Form to New Function 1939 Laura A. Janda Morphological Universals and Tendencies 1963 Dunstan Brown Morphologization (from phonology and syntax) and Demorphologization 1991 Livio Gaeta Morphology and Syntax in Competition: The Place of Inflectional Periphrasis 2021 Andrew Spencer and Gergana Popova Negation: Diachronic Developments 2045 M.Teresa Espinal and Susagna Tubau Non-Morphological Sources and Triggers of Morphological Change 2077 Ekaterina Georgieva and Irina Burukina Volume IV Onomasiological Variation: How We Name Extralinguistic Reality 2095 Jesus Fernandez Dominguez The Penthouse Principle Revisited 2115 Sam Wolfe Periodization 2147 John Charles Smith Phonological Constraints and Conditioning in Diachronic Morphology 2167 Yuni Kim and Mary Paster Phonological Universals in Sound Change 2189 David Natvig Pragmatic Strengthening and Conventionalized Implicature 2211 Regine Eckardt Processing Efficiency 2231 Richard Futrell Productivity 2265 Johanna Barðdal, Renata Enghels, Quentin Feltgen, Sven Van Hulle, and Peter Lauwers Propagation of Change: Computational Models 2293 Henri Kauhanen Prosodic Changes and Metrical Restructuring: Syllables, Feet, and Prosodic Templates 2317 Laura Catharine Smith Proto-Languages 2351 Gerd Carling and Filip Larsson Quantification 2379 Tamas Halm Reanalysis and Restructuring 2417 Helmut Weis Reconstruction without Broad Comparison: Internal Reconstruction 2437 Jose Ignacio Hualde Regularity and Exceptions 2459 Peter Rebrus Relative Clauses 2489 Eva Dekany Revisiting the Five Foundational Problems of Weinreich, Labov, and Herzog (1968) 2523 Anne Breitbarth Rise and Fall of Case: When Syntax Meets Morphology 2549 Nikolaos Lavidas and Eleni Plakoutsi Salience 2589 Peter Racz Semantic Universals 2605 Chiara Gianollo Semasiological Variation 2629 Dirk Geeraerts Social Conditioning, Differentiation, and Linguistic Valuation 2645 Jon Forrest Sociocultural Drivers of Lexical Innovation 2667 Terttu Nevalainen and Tanja Saily Sociolinguistic Typology: Complexification and Simplification 2687 Christian Bentz and Annemarie Verkerk Sources of Nominal Number Markers 2717 Patricia Cabredo Hofherr Volume V Standardization 2755 Gijsbert Rutten Subgrouping 2777 Daniel Kaufman Subjectification and Intersubjectification 2813 Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Katsunobu Izutsu, and Mitsuko Narita Izutsu Suppletion 2837 Ljuba Veselinova Syncretism 2889 Louise Esher Syntactic Changes in Nominal Agreement 2913 Giampaolo Salvi Syntactic Changes in Verbal Agreement 2945 Charlotte Hemmings, Hannah Gibson, and Lutz Marten Syntactic Methods for Language Phylogenies 2971 Cristina Guardiano and Giuseppe Longobardi Syntactic Reanalysis 3011 Marieke Meelen Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic Changes in Meaning 3037 Josh Phillips and Martin Fuchs Tense, Aspect, and Mood Systems 3059 Barbara Meisterernst Tonogenesis and the Evolution of Tone Systems 3093 Marc Brunelle and James Kirby Transmission and Diffusion of Syntactic Change 3129 David Willis Transparency 3157 Eric Haeberli Typology of Prosodic Organization 3177 Martin Kummel Uniformitarianism 3195 Claire Bowern Variation and Change in Language Revitalization 3217 Itxaso Rodriguez-Ordonez and Jonathan R. Kasstan Voice Alternations in Diachrony 3239 Laura Grestenberger and Iris Tanza-Kamil Wave Model 3289 Jamin Pelkey and Siva Kalyan Word-Order Universals: A Formal Approach 3315 Ian Roberts Working with Dead Languages 3337 James Clackson and Nathan W. Hill Working with Language Isolates 3353 Patience Epps and Hein van der Voort Writing Systems 3377 William G. Boltz Index 3401