LINGUIST List 9.838

Fri Jun 5 1998

TOC: Diachronica XV:1

Editor for this issue: Anita Huang <anitalinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Joseph C. Salmons, DIACHRONICA XV:1

The Spring 1998 issue of DIACHRONICA, vol. 15, no. 1, has just been
published. It contains:

_ARTICLES_
Michel Ferlus, Les syste`mes de tons dans les langues viet-muong
Martin Haspelmath, The Semantic Development of Old Presents: New futures
 and subjunctives without grammaticalization
Tomas Riad, The Origin of Scandinavian Tone Accents
Donald Winford, On the Origins of African American Vernacular English:
 A creolist perspective, Part II: Linguistic features

_REVIEWS_
Gary Bevington, Where do words comes from? An introduction to etymology.
 Rev. by Rex Wallace
Jose' del Valle, El trueque s/x en el espan~ol antiguo. Rev. by Dieter Wanner
Gereon Franken, Systematische Etymologie: Untersuchung einer 'Mischsprache' am
 Beispiel des Shakespeare-Wortschatzes. Rev. by Terence Odlin
Andreas Jucker, Historical Pragmatics. Rev. by Nick Nicholas
Christian Lehmann, Thoughts on Grammaticalization. Rev. by Bernard Comrie.

_MISCELLENEA_
J.C. Smith, Report on the 13th International Conference on Historical
 Linguistics
Saul Levin, Reply to Bomhard's Review of Levin (1996)

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