UID:
edocfu_9959242561702883
Format:
1 online resource (442 pages).
Series Statement:
Typological Studies in Language ; Volume 121
Content:
Typological hierarchies are widely perceived as one of the most important results of research on language universals and linguistic diversity. Explanations for typological hierarchies, however, are usually based on the synchronic properties of the patterns described by individual hierarchies, not the actual diachronic processes that give rise to these patterns cross-linguistically. This book aims to explore in what ways the investigation of such processes can further our understanding of typological hierarchies. To this end, diachronic evidence about the origins of several phenomena described by typological hierarchies is discussed for several languages by a number of leading scholars in typology, historical linguistics, and language documentation. This evidence suggests a rethinking of possible explanations for typological hierarchies, as well as the very notion of typological universals in general. For this reason, the book will be of interest not only to the broad typological community, but also historical linguists, cognitive linguists, and psycholinguists.
Note:
Part I. Setting the stage: Synchronic vs. diachronic approaches to typological hierarchies -- Part II. Foundational issues: Chapter 1. Evolutionary Phonology and the life cycle of voiceless sonorants -- Chapter 2. The Obligatory Coding Principle in diachronic perspective -- Chapter 3. Deconstructing teleology -- Part III. Hierarchical effects and their origins: Chapter 4. The development of referential hierarchy effects in Sahaptian -- Chapter 5. Diachrony and the referential hierarchy in Old Irish -- Chapter 6. From ergative case-marking to hierarchical agreement -- Chapter 7. The direction(s) of analogical change in direct/inverse systems -- Chapter 8. Are the Tupi-Guarani hierarchical indexing systems really motivated by the person hierarchy? -- Chapter 9. Incipient hierarchical alignment in four Central Salish languages from the Proto-Salish middle -- Part IV. Conflicting hierarchical patterns and how to deal with them: Chapter 10. Deictic and sociopragmatic effects in Tibeto-Burman SAP indexation -- Chapter 11. Morphosyntactic coding of proper names and its implications for the Animacy Hierarchy -- Chapter 12. Generic person marking in Japhug and other Gyalrong languages -- Author index -- Language Index -- Subject Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-272-0026-2
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-272-6445-7
Language:
English
