
Sounds and Systems
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The integration of traditional and modern linguistics as well as diachrony and synchrony is the hallmark of an influential trend in contemporary research on language. It is documented in the present collection of 21 new papers on the history and structure of the sounds and other (sub-) systems of human languages, sharing the common reference point of Theo Vennemann, a leading figure in the above-mentioned trend, whom the authors want to honor with this Festschrift.
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Content
- Intro
- Preface
- Contents
- Introduction
- I. Historical studies on sounds, words, and systems
- A. Sound change
- Preglottalization in English and a North Germanic bifurcation
- Zur neuhochdeutschen Dehnung in offener Tonsilbe
- Lexical diffusion in regular sound change
- Unveiling a masked change: behind vowel harmony in the dialect of Claro
- Accents and medieval English phonologists
- Retraction and rounding in Old English breaking
- B. Language change Latin ipse, Continental Celtic -xsi: a tentative proposal
- Der Name al-Andalus: neue Überlegungen zu einem alten Problem
- Fein gehackte Pinienkerne zugeben! Zum Infinitiv in Kochrezepten
- Language change in early Britain: the convergence account
- Irish ainder, Welsh anner, Breton annoar, Basque andere
- II. Synchronic studies on sounds, words, and uses
- Cyclicity and base non-identity
- The meter of nursery rhymes: universal versus language-specific patterns
- Unreine Reime und phonologische Theorie
- Choctaw intensives and syllable theory
- Imperatives: the relation between meaning and form
- Struktur und Akzent komplexer Komposita
- Warum wir zusammenschreiben nicht immer zusammenschreiben - Präferenzgesetze im Schriftsystem
- Noun classification and composition in Kilmeri
- The puzzle of the autoantonymous argument role. Unraveling the polysemy of risk/riskieren
- Be brief and vague! And how Bidirectional Optimality Theory allows for verbosity and precision
- Publications of Theo Vennemann
- Tabula Gratulatoria
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