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Diachronic Changes in Jazz Harmony
Music Perception, 2013The present study examines both gradual and rapid changes occurring in 20th-century jazz harmonic practice. A newly-assembled corpus of 1,086 jazz compositions was used to test the idea that jazz music exhibits a mid-century decline in traditionally “tonal” chord usage.
Daniel Shanahan, Yuri Broze
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Morphological Theory and Diachronic Change
2018Variation and change are essential for any human language, but at the same time they form a challenge for theoretical models of grammar. This chapter discusses some notions and phenomena encountered in word-formation change that should be relevant to any morphological theory.
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Understanding diachronic change in Cappadocian Greek
Journal of Historical Linguistics, 2013This article challenges the widely held view that a series of pervasive diachronic innovations in Cappadocian Greek owe their development to language contact with Turkish. Placing particular emphasis on its genealogical relationships with the other dialects of Asia Minor, the claim is that language change in Cappadocian is best understood when ...
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Imperfect systems and diachronic change
2008Syntactic change consists of (a series of) small, local changes which are the result of chance or are brought about by the possible imperfections of the linguistic system — the impression of globality of the change is due to the sum of the individual changes which, eventually eliminating single imperfections, contribute to the formation of a more ...
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Diachronic Changes of Modifier-Head Phrases
Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics, 2008Basic phrase types remain constant throughout the history of the Chinese language. However, functions of each phrase type went through certain changes that were not yet adequately discussed. This paper explores diachronic changes of functions of the modifier-head phrase, which is the commonest phrase type.
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How far can diachronic change be predicted
Diachronica, 2011This paper attempts to predict diachronic change in the restricted domain of Italo-Romance first person plural present indicative allomorphs, starting from the reconstructed Proto-Italo-Romance forms -amo, -emo, -imo, preserved in several dialects to this day (with corresponding subjunctives -emo, -iamo, -iamo). The predictions, or rather retrodictions
Rosella Spina, Wolfgang U. Dressler
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Diachronic changes in long-distance dependencies
2012Dutch long-distance dependencies representing four constructions (wh-questions, relative clauses, topicalization and comparatives) are studied from a diachronic corpus-based perspective. There is a steep decline in usage of such dependencies for relative clauses (but not free relatives) and topicalization, which we attribute to the rise of resumptive ...
Hoeksema, J., Schippers, A.
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Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change
2018This volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of the intersecting fields of corpus linguistics, historical linguistics, and genre-based studies of language usage. Papers in this collection are devoted to presenting relevant methods pertinent to corpus-based studies of the connection between genre and language change, linguistic changes that occur in
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