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Valency patterns and valency orientation have been frequent topics of research under different perspectives, often poorly connected. Diachronic studies on these topics is even less systematic than synchronic ones. The papers in this book bring together two strands of research on valency, i.e. the description of valency patterns as worked out in the Leipzig Valency Classes Project (ValPaL), and the assessment of a language's basic valency and its possible orientation. Notably, the ValPaL does not provide diachronic information concerning the valency patterns investigated: one of the aims of the book is to supplement the available data with data from historical stages of languages, in order to make it profitably exploitable for diachronic research. In addition, new research on the diachrony of basic valency and valency alternations can deepen our understanding of mechanisms of language change and of the propensity of languages or language families to exploit different constructional patterns related to transitivity.

Linguistic change. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Transitivity.

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This book contains a set of different works unified by a common theme and by a common analysis approach: historical linguistics and the processes of linguistic change and standardisation. The volume combines two types of contributions, providing contact with research directions and research projects being conducted in different parts of the world. Some texts discuss theoretical and methodological subjects currently considered in linguistic studies, particularly in the field of historical linguistics. Other chapters aim to study the change of linguistic structures and linguistic usages. In these cases, detailed analysis of empirical and diversified data is provided. Finally, some contributions of this volume take codificatory work over Portuguese as corpus. Such data supports research on the knowledge of the ancient language and provides the researcher with relevant elements for the comprehension and clarification of the standardisation processes, a phenomenon that usually accompanies the elaboration of languages.

Sotho du sud --- Gramaticography --- Corpora --- Ardisation --- Linguistic change --- Historical linguistics

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The elusive study of language change deals with discernible realia, such as sounds or structured groups of sounds, or words with their intra- and interrelationships. But these empirial data are constantly changing, and even interpreting them may be influenced by new linguistic circumstances. Description of language change has the advantage of hard evidence, but uncovering the reasons behind a set of language data is not a secure task. Language Change investigates the many facets of human activity that bear on this complex field. It relies on the polar areas of phonology, with its immediate alliance to physiology and physics, and semantics, with its penetration into the meaning of the world at large. Irmengard Rauch and Gerald F. Carr have organized the volume in four sections—Contemporary Change, Historical Change, Linguists on Language Change, and Strata and Language Change—with almost half the chapters offering contemporary data.The distinguished contributors are Barbara Greim, Wayne Harbert, Henry and Renee KahaneI, Ilse Lehist, Winfred P. Lehmann, David Lightfoot, Yakov Malkiel, Raven McDavid Jr., Els Oksaar, Edgar Polome, Irmengard Rauch, and Frans VanCoetsem. Their range of topics reflects the kaleidoscopic essence of language change itself and will be of falue not only to linguists and semioticians but to historians, sociologists, philosophers, and anthropologists as well.

Aufsatzsammlung --- Sprachwandel --- Taalverandering. --- Linguistic change. --- Changement linguistique --- Congres. --- Change, Linguistic --- Language change --- Historical linguistics --- Language and languages --- Linguistics

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Grammar, Comparative and general --- Phonetics --- Psycholinguistics --- Linguistic change --- Linguistic change. --- Phonetics. --- Psycholinguistics. --- Phonology --- Phonology. --- Language and languages --- Language, Psychology of --- Psychology of language --- Speech --- Articulatory phonetics --- Orthoepy --- Change, Linguistic --- Language change --- Comparative grammar --- Grammar --- Grammar, Philosophical --- Grammar, Universal --- Philosophical grammar --- Psychological aspects --- Psychology --- Grammar, Comparative --- phonetics --- spoken language --- manual signs --- signed language --- linguistics --- Linguistics --- Thought and thinking --- Sound --- Voice --- Historical linguistics --- Philology

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Textmuster und Textsorten sind historisch gewachsene Einheiten der kommunikativen Praxis einer Gemeinschaft. Das Inventar typischer Formen der Kommunikation wird durch unterschiedliche Faktoren bestimmt, etwa durch sich aendernde Interaktionsbeduerfnisse einer Gesellschaft, durch technologische Innovationen oder durch variierende mediale Kontexte. Dadurch unterliegen kommunikative Praktiken einem steten Wandelprozess und spiegeln ihn gleichzeitig. Einen Schwerpunkt bilden dabei Fragen nach Charakteristik, Entstehung, Leistung und Veraenderung von Textmustern und Textsorten. Die Beitraege des v

Grammar, Comparative and general -- Topic and comment. --- Language acquisition. --- Linguistic change. --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Linguistics. --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Language and languages --- Communication studies --- Teaching of a specific subject --- Language teaching and learning --- News media and journalism --- Linguistics