Sounds and Systems : Studies in Structure and Change. a Festschrift for Theo Vennemann.

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.

The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. The series considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language.

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