Reviews for Anaphora: Analysis, Algorithms and Applications

The average rating for Anaphora: Analysis, Algorithms and Applications based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-05-10 00:00:00 Vincent Pittman This collection offers selected papers from the 16th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, held in Copenhagen in August, 2003. Of the language families treated here, the Germanic languages are the most prominent, with papers on early Nordic prefix loss (Michael Schulte), the evolution of Swedish bara (Henrik Rosenkvist), main stress left in Early Middle English (B. Elan Dresher & Aditi Lahiri), some dialectal, sociolectal and communicative aspects of word order variation and change in Late Middle English (Tamás Eitler), and copula variability in rural Southern America (Gaillynn D. Clement), the loss of morphological case in Middle Low German and in the Mainland Scandinavian languages (John Ole Askedal). Though it has a title suggesting general theoretical concerns, Kasper Boye's "Raising verbs vs. auxiliaries" draws its material from Danish. Latin and the Romance languages are also the topic of several papers: new evidence for the origin of the final unstressed [i] in Brazilian and other varieties of Portuguese (Maria José Carvalho), the Old Spanish shift from ge to se (Andrés Enrique-Arias), Latin examples of grammaticalization (Michèle Fruyt), Lat. et vs. sic in Old French and Old Romanian (Maria M. Manoliu), ditransitive to monotransitive structure in the history of Spanish (Rosa María Ortiz Ciscomani), reflexive intensification in Spanish (Johan Pedersen), the development of the Spanish verb ir to an auxiliary of voice (Thora Vinther). Silvia Luraghi's "Paths of semantic extension: From cause to beneficiary and purpose" works with data from Greek and Latin. There are only a handful of papers touching on non-European languages. Michael Fortescue contributes a paper on the origin of transitive auxiliary verbs in Chukotko-Kamchatkan. Paul Black engages in ethnoreconstruction in Kok-Papónk. Kazuha Watanabe's "The development of continuous aspect" looks at how the theory to date had failed to account for the situation in Japanese, Korean, Newar, and Parji. None of the papers here really touched on my own research interests. Nonetheless, these papers are all written to a high standard and this volume is worth checking out for anyone working in historical linguistics -- as are all volumes in John Benjamins' Current Issues in Linguistic Theory series.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-08-01 00:00:00 Dennis Record Enh. Some parts very informative. Other (especially later chapters) tedious and .. not really repetitive but just not that informative or interesting.