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Format: 1 online resource (752p.)

ISBN: 9783110886092

Series Statement: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 45

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

Additional Edition: ISBN 978-3-11-011908-4

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9783110886092

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110886092