UID:
edocfu_9958355044802883
Format:
1 online resource (752p.)
ISBN:
9783110886092
Series Statement:
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 45
Note:
Frontmatter --
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Preface --
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Contributors --
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Introduction: The comparative method --
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1. American Indian Languages --
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Summary report: American Indian languages and principles of language change --
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The role of typology in American Indian historical linguistics --
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Morphosyntax and problems of reconstruction in Yuman and Hokan --
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Tlingit: A portmanteau language family? --
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Algonquian linguistic change and reconstruction --
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Mayan languages and linguistic change --
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2. Austronesian Languages --
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Summary report: Linguistic change and reconstruction methodology in the Austronesian language family --
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The "aberrant" (vs. "exemplary") Melanesian languages --
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The Austronesian monosyllabic root, radical or phonestheme --
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Ergativity east and west --
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Homomeric lexical classification --
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Patterns of sound change in the Austronesian languages --
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3. Indo-European Languages --
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Summary report of the Indo-European panel --
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Phonology and morphology at the crossroads --
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Etymologies, equations, and comparanda: Types and values, and criteria for judgment --
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The historical grammar of Greek: A case study in the results of comparative linguistics --
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A survey of the comparative phonology of the so-called "Nostratic" languages --
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A few issues of contemporary Indo-European linguistics --
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Is the "comparative" method general or family-specific? --
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The homomeric argument for a Slavo-Germanic subgroup of Indo-European --
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4. Australian Languages --
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Summary report: Linguistic change and reconstruction in the Australian language family --
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Verbal inflection and macro-subgroupings of Australian languages: The search for conjugation markers in non-Pama-Nyungan --
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Social parameters of linguistic change in an unstratified Aboriginal society --
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The significance of pronouns in the history of Australian languages --
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Prenasalization in Pama-Nyungan --
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5. Altaic Languages --
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Summary report of the Altaic panel --
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Morphological clues to the relationships of Japanese and Korean --
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A rule of medial *-r- loss in pre-Old Japanese --
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Japanese and what other Altaic languages? --
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6. Afro-Asiatic Languages --
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Summary report: Linguistic change and reconstruction in the Afro-Asiatic languages --
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Dialectal variation in Proto-Afroasiatic --
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Re-employment of grammatical morphemes in Chadic: Implications for language history --
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Interpretation of orthographic forms --
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The role of Egyptian within Afroasiatic (/Lislakh) --
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A survey of Omotic grammemes --
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The regularity of sound change: A Semitistic perspective --
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Subject index --
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Language index --
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Author index --
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Backmatter
Additional Edition:
ISBN 978-3-11-011908-4
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110886092
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110886092
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