{"title":"Source constructions as a key to alignment change","authors":"P. M. Noorlander","doi":"10.1075/JHL.19046.NOO","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/JHL.19046.NOO","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Alignment patterns in the Eastern varieties of modern Aramaic varieties are generally said to originate in an\u0000 ergative source construction based on the so-called ‘passive’ participle qṭīl- ‘killed’ and the preposition\u0000 l- where ergative person markers gradually extended to all intransitive predicates. While various source\u0000 constructions have been suggested, this article demonstrates that most explanatory power and scope for the complex historical\u0000 background of the alignment microvariation in Neo-Aramaic is offered by the typology of resultatives. There was instability from\u0000 the beginning due to the versatile nature of resultatives and the increasing polyfunctionality of the preposition\u0000 l-. This, in turn, indicates that the suggested source constructions for ergative alignment need not be\u0000 mutually exclusive. Moreover, this also points to ergativity as merely one among several outcomes rather than the original\u0000 source.","PeriodicalId":42165,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47015021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Mailhammer & Vennemann (2019): The Carthaginian North: Semitic Influence on Early Germanic: A Linguistic and Cultural Study","authors":"Nelson Goering","doi":"10.1075/JHL.20028.GOE","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/JHL.20028.GOE","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42165,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42489607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Doron, Hovav, Reshef & Taube (2019): Language Contact, Continuity and Change in the Genesis of Modern Hebrew","authors":"Y. Matras","doi":"10.1075/JHL.21005.MAT","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/JHL.21005.MAT","url":null,"abstract":"This article reviews Language Contact, Continuity and Change in the Genesis of Modern Hebrew","PeriodicalId":42165,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44861786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Syntactic conditions on accusative to ergative alignment change in Austronesian languages","authors":"E. Aldridge","doi":"10.1075/JHL.20016.ALD","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/JHL.20016.ALD","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This paper develops the proposal put forth by Aldridge (2015, 2016) for the emergence of ergative alignment in a first-order subgroup of the Austronesian family. I first provide new evidence for reconstructing Proto-Austronesian (PAn) as accusative rather than ergative. I then propose a significantly revised approach to Aldridge’s proposed reanalysis. On the basis of evidence from Tsou, I propose that the reanalysis took place in biclausal constructions embedded under motion or locative verbs. Since such biclausal constructions are contexts for restructuring, no accusative case is available for an object. This forced objects which needed structural licensing to value nominative case with T. I additionally show that subjects were assigned inherent non-nominative case in PAn when objects needed to enter into Agree with T, as when valuing nominative case. These conditions yielded a new ergative clause type in a daughter of PAn, which Aldridge (2015, 2016) calls “Proto-Ergative Austronesian”. No change took place in clauses lacking an object needing structural licensing. Consequently, subjects in intransitive clauses and transitive clauses with indefinite objects continued to surface with nominative case, yielding the type of ergative alignment prevalent in Formosan and Philippine languages today.","PeriodicalId":42165,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45030778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Non-coordinating UND” in Middle and Early New High German","authors":"S. Oppermann","doi":"10.1075/jhl.19011.opp","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jhl.19011.opp","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Even though it has been noted quite early that the conjunction UND may also serve as a relative/equative particle\u0000 or even a subjunction in Middle High German and Early New High German, corpus-based empirical studies are lacking so far. Based on new empirical data, I show that\u0000 non-coordinating UND originated in the Upper German dialect area during the 12th century, subsequently spreading to the Central German dialect area and\u0000 reaching the peak of its use in the 14th century. In contrast to recent literature, I argue that the non-coordinating use of the\u0000 conjunction originated from semantically and syntactically ambiguous constructions of the form UND-XP-VFIN. I also propose that\u0000 the earliest instances of the phenomenon are (adverbial) relative constructions and that the temporal and the equative function\u0000 developed via reanalysis of adverbial relative clauses with a temporal/modal head element.","PeriodicalId":42165,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42550675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Duhumbi perspective on Proto-Western Kho-Bwa onsets","authors":"T. Bodt","doi":"10.1075/jhl.19021.bod","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jhl.19021.bod","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The eight Western Kho-Bwa varieties are spoken in western Arunachal Pradesh in Northeast India and form a small, coherent\u0000 sub-group of the Tibeto-Burman (Trans-Himalayan / Sino-Tibetan) language family.\u0000 This paper presents 96 sound correspondences, mainly between the two Western Kho-Bwa varieties Duhumbi and Khoitam, with\u0000 additional evidence from other Western Kho-Bwa varieties and other Tibeto-Burman languages whenever deemed illustrative. On basis of these\u0000 sound correspondences, I propose 282 Western Kho-Bwa proto-forms including a total of 92 onsets. The less common reconstructed Western\u0000 Kho-Bwa onsets are the uvular onsets and the voiceless nasal and approximant onsets.\u0000 A unique innovation of the Western Kho-Bwa languages, and indeed the Kho-Bwa languages in general, is the correspondence\u0000 of initial *s- in other Tibeto-Burman languages to a vocal onset in Proto-Western Kho-Bwa and its descendent varieties. Another relatively\u0000 unique innovation is the correspondence between Western Kho-Bwa obstruent onsets *b- and *g- ~ *kʰ- ~ *k- and other Tibeto-Burman nasal\u0000 onsets *m- and *ŋ-, respectively.","PeriodicalId":42165,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49618825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evidence for a phonemic glottal stop in Hittite as the outcome of PIE *h1: a reassessment*","authors":"Alwin Kloekhorst","doi":"10.13109/hisp.2020.133.1.111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13109/hisp.2020.133.1.111","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42165,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Linguistics","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2020-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88435022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emplois de la flexion en -hhe en hittite","authors":"S. Patri","doi":"10.13109/hisp.2020.133.1.209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13109/hisp.2020.133.1.209","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42165,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Linguistics","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2020-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86675425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}