Two new Books in Historical Linguistics: Sornicola et al.; King

[Paul Peranteau]

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John Benjamins Publishing announces two new works in Historical Linguistics:


The Lexical Basis of Grammatical Borrowing.
A Prince Edward Island French case study.
Ruth KING (York University)
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 209
US & Canada: 1 58811 014 1 / USD 90.00 (Hardcover)
Rest of world: 90 272 3716 6 / NLG 180.00 (Hardcover)

This book is a detailed study of French-English linguistic borrowing in
Prince Edward Island, Canada which argues for the centrality of lexical
innovation to grammatical change. Chapters 1-4 present the theoretical and
methodological perspectives adopted along with the sociolinguistic history
of Acadian French. Chapter 5 outlines the basic features of Acadian French
morphosyntax. Chapter 6 provides an overview of the linguistic
consequences of language contact in Prince Edward Island. Chapters 7-9
consider three particular cases of grammatical borrowing: the borrowing of
the English adverb back and the semantic and syntactic reanalysis it has
undergone, the borrowing of a wide range of English prepositions,
resulting in dramatic changes in the syntactic behaviour of French
prepositions, and the borrowing of English wh-ever words, resulting in the
emergence of a new type of free relative. Chapter 10 argues for a theory
of grammar contact by which contact-induced grammatical change is mediated
by the lexicon.

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Stability, Variation and Change of Word-Order Patterns over Time.
with the assistance of Paola Como
Rosanna SORNICOLA (Universita di Napoli Frederico II) ,Erich POPPE 
(Philipps-Universitaet Marburg) and Ariel SHISHA HALEVY (The Hebrew 
University of Jerusalem) (eds.)
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 213
US & Canada: 1 58811 037 0 / USD 86.00 (Hardcover)
Rest of world: 90 272 3720 4 / NLG 190.00 (Hardcover)

The issue of permanence and change of word-order patterns has long
been debated in both historical linguistics and structural
theories. The interest in this theme has been revamped by
contemporary research in typology with its emphasis on correlation
or 'harmonies' of structures of word-order as explicative
principles of both synchronic and diachronic processes. The aim of
this book is to stimulate a critical reconsideration of
perspectives and methods in the study of continuities and
discontinuities of word-order patterns. Bringing together
contributions by specialists of various theoretical backgrounds and
with expertise in different language families or groups (Caucasian,
Hamito-Semitic, and - among Indo-European - Hittite, Greek, Celtic,
Germanic, Slavonic, Romance), the book addresses issues like the
notions of stability, variation and change of word-order and their
interrelations, the interplay of syntactic and pragmatic factors,
and the role of internal and external factors in synchronic and
diachronic dynamics of word-order. The book contains a selection of
papers presented at a workshop held at the XIII International
Conference on Historical Linguistics (Düsseldorf, August 1997) and
additonal invited contributions.
Contributions by: Jean-Pierre Benoist, Marcello Cherchi, Oliver
Currie, Guy Deutscher, Jan Terje Faarlund, Alice C. Harris, Carol
F. Justus, Antonio Loprieno, Erich Poppe, Anette Rosenbach &
Letizia Vezzosi, Ariel Shisha Halevy, Rosanna Sornicola, Willem
Koopman & Wim van der Wurff, Mark Janse.




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