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Historical linguistics --- Grammar --- Dialectology --- Linguistic change --- Construction grammar --- Linguistic change. --- Construction grammar. --- Changement linguistique --- Grammaire de construction --- Changement linguistique. --- Grammaire de construction. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Change, Linguistic --- Language change --- Language and languages

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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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Functionalism (Linguistics) --- Linguistic change --- Fonctionnalisme (Linguistique) --- Changement linguistique --- Congresses --- Congrès --- Historical linguistics --- Grammar --- Congresses. --- Language and languages --- Linguistic change - Congresses. --- Functionalism (Linguistics) - Congresses.

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The International Conference on Historical Linguistics has always been a forum that reflects the general state of the art in the field, and the 2009 edition, held in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, fully allows the conclusion that the field has been thriving over the years. The studies presented in this volume are an expression of ongoing theoretical discussions as well as new analytical approaches to the study of issues concerning language change. Taken together, they reflect some of the current challenges in the field, as well as the opportunities offered by judicious use of theoretical models and careful corpus-based work. The volume's contributions are organized under the following headings: I. General and Specific Issues of Language Change, II. Linguistic Variation and Change in Germanic, III. Linguistic Variation and Change in Greek, and IV. Linguistic Change in Romance.

Historical linguistics --- Linguistic change --- Linguistique historique --- Changement linguistique --- Congresses. --- Congresses --- Congrès --- Historical linguistics -- Congresses. --- Linguistics -- History. --- Linguistics. --- Historical linguistics. --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Congrès --- E-books --- Conferences - Meetings

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How do new ways of encoding valence alternations emerge, how and why do they spread, and what are the consequences of their emergence and spread for already existing patterns? This book discusses these questions on the basis of a concrete example of valence alternation, the French causative-anticausative alternation. The main focus of the proposed analysis is the anticausative member of the alternation and the relation between the two formal types of anticausative verbs in French, the reflexive and the unmarked anticausative (La branche s'est cassée vs. La branche a cassé 'The branch broke'). The emergence and spread of the reflexive anticausative, the consequences of these processes for the unmarked anticausative and the semantic relation between reflexive and unmarked anticausatives are analyzed on the basis of several corpus studies.

French language --- Grammar --- Causative. --- Reflexives. --- Verb. --- Grammar, Historical. --- Langue d'oïl --- Romance languages --- Changement linguistique --- Grammaire de dépendance --- Causatif (linguistique) --- Constructions réfléchies (linguistique) --- Linguistics. --- Romance Studies. --- Semantics. --- Syntax. --- Valency.