none 10.1075/cilt.348.28tho John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 109298097 3391440 1419350 202507022005000005 10.1075 2025-07-02T14:09:22Z 2019-08-23T08:40:57Z 0 0304-0763 10.1075/cilt https://benjamins.com/ catalog/cilt Michela Cennamo University of Naples Federico II https://ror.org/05290cv24 Claudia Fabrizio University of Chieti-Pescara https://ror.org/00qjgza05 Renato Parlato Selected papers from the 22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Naples, 27–31 July 2015 The collection of articles presented in this volume addresses a number of general theoretical, methodological and empirical issues in the field of Historical Linguistics, in different levels of analysis and on different themes: (i) phonology, (ii) morphology, (iii) morphosyntax, (iv) syntax, (v) diachronic typology, (vi) semantics and pragmatics, and (vii) language contact, variation and diffusion. The topics discussed, often in a comparative perspective, feature a variety of languages and language families and cover a wide range of research areas. Novel analyses and often new diachronic data — also from less known and under-investigated languages — are provided to the debate on the principles, mechanisms, paths and models of language change, as well as the relationship between synchronic variation and diachrony. The volume is of interest to scholars of different persuasions working on all aspects of language change. 348 9 10 2019 8 23 2019 9789027203250 9789027262455 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam 10.1075/cilt.348 http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027262455 https://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/9789027262455.pdf https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/cilt.348/html Luzius Thöny Abstract Since the 19th century, the wave has been a key concept in descriptions of the diffusion of linguistic innovations in speaker communities. Recently, the study of language change through computer modeling and simulations has become more widespread. The aim of this paper is to investigate whether computer simulations of linguistic diffusion show wavelike phenomena. A brief review of diffusion mechanisms from previous literature is presented, followed by the description of a new software framework for testing hypotheses (PDIFFSIM) and a report of some results of own simulations. These results show that it is possible to implement a diffusion mechanism which produces waves of diminishing strength. Despite this, it is ultimately concluded that diffusion processes in the real world are better thought of as cascades in social networks rather than waves. Limiting factors of real world diffusion processes are rather to be sought in language-internal and -external restrictions. 9 10 2019 8 23 2019 615 630 10.1075/cilt.348.28tho https://benjamins.com/catalog/cilt.348.28tho https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/cilt.348.28tho/html 10.1017/CBO9780511486623.015 Variation and Linguistic Theory Bailey 1973 Physical Review E Baxter 73 046118 1 2006 Utterance selection model of language change 10.1017/S095439450999010X 10.1371/journal.pone.0058960 10.1353/lan.2012.0027 Cultural Transmission and Evolution: A Quantitative Approach Cavalli-Sforza 1981 10.1006/jpho.2000.0125 The Origins of Vowel Systems de Boer 2001 10.1093/oso/9780198299653.001.0001 10.1007/978-1-4471-0663-0_4 Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik De Vogelaer 73 3 259 2006 Actuation, Diffusion, and Universals. Change in the Pronominal System in Dutch Dialects 10.1111/j.1469-1809.1937.tb02153.x The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics François 161 2014 Trees, Waves and Linkages: Models of Language Diversification Language and Space Haas 649 2010 A Study on areal diffusion 10.1007/3-540-48304-7_92 10.1109/WSC.2009.5429318 The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World Mallory 2006 Linguistic Diversity Nettle 1999 10.1093/oso/9780198238584.001.0001 10.1016/S0024-3841(98)00046-1 10.6084/m9.figshare.1164194 ArXiv Pierrehumbert 1408 1985 1 2014 A model of grassroots changes in linguistic systems Die Verwantschaftsverhältnisse der indogermanischen Sprachen Schmidt 1872 Der Vokalismus des Vulgärlateins Schuchardt 1868 Dialectology meets Typology. Dialect Grammar from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective Seiler 367 2004 On three types of dialect variation and their implications for linguistic theory. Evidence from verb clusters in Swiss German dialects 10.1075/cilt.279.11sei Grundzüge deutscher Sprachgeschichte. Diachronie des Sprachsystems Sonderegger 1979 The Evolution of Language. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference (EVOLANG10) Stadler 525 2014 Momentum-based language change: A non-adaptive model of directional selection 10.1163/22105832-00602005 10.1017/S0954394513000069 10.1016/j.plrev.2011.10.014 10.1002/9780470756393.ch24