Language typology and historical contingency

in honor of Johanna Nichols

Language typology and historical contingency
Balthasar Bickel, Lenore A. Gr ...
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Language typology and historical contingency

in honor of Johanna Nichols

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Table of Contents

Discourse semantics and the form of the verb predicate in Karachay-Balkar : a corpus-based and experimental study / Andrej A. Kibrik
Typology and channel of communication : where do signed languages fit in? / Dan I. Slobin
Marking versus indexing : revisiting the Nichols marking-locus typology / Nicholas Evans & Eva Fenwick
Head-marking languages and linguistic theory / Robert D. Van Valin Jr.
Lessons of variability in clause coordination : evidence from North Caucasian languages / Aleksandr E. Kibrik
Noun classes grow on trees : noun classification in the North-East Caucasus / Keith Plaster, Maria Polinsky & Boris Harizanov
Affecting valence in Khumi / David A. Peterson
Capturing diversity in language acquisition research / Sabine Stoll & Balthasar Bickel
Who inherits what, when? : toward a theory of contact, substrates, and superimposition zones / Mark Donohue
Polysynthesis in the Arctic/Sub-Arctic : how recent is it? / Michael Fortescue
A (micro-)accretion zone in a remnant zone? : lower Fungom in areal-historical perspective / Jeff Good
A history of Iroquoian gender marking / Michael Cysouw
The Satem Shift, Armenian sisern, and the early Indo-European of the Balkans / Bill J. Darden
Penultimate lengthening in Bantu : analysis and spread / Larry M. Hyman
Culture and the spread of Slavic / Alan Timberlake
The syntax and pragmatics of Tungusic revisited / Lenore A. Grenoble
Some observations on typological features of hunter-gatherer languages / Michael Cysouw & Bernard Comrie
Typologizing phonetic precursors to sound change / Alan C.L. Yu
Distributional biases in language families / Balthasar Bickel
The morphology of imperatives in Lak : stem vowels in the second singular simplex transitive affirmative / Victor A. Friedman
Subgrouping in Tibeto-Burman : can an individual-identifying standard be developed? how do we factor in the history of migrations and language contact? / Randy J. LaPolla
Real data, contrived data, and the Yokuts Canon / William F. Weigel.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Amsterdam, Philadelphia
Series
Typological studies in language -- volume 104, Typological studies in language -- v. 104.
Copyright Date
2013

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Dewey Decimal Class
415.01
Library of Congress
P204 .L298 2013, P204.L298 2013, P204

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Pagination
viii, 512 pages
Number of pages
512

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Open Library
OL31168142M
ISBN 10
9027206856, 9027270805
ISBN 13
9789027206855, 9789027270801
LCCN
2013038029
OCLC/WorldCat
859582188

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