Screen LibraryLinguistic change and reconstruction methodology /
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De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin ; Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
2011. ©1990 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Trends in linguistics. studies and monographs [tilsm] ;
volume 45 |
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| Online Access: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110886092 http://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9783110886092.jpg |
| Item Description: | Includes indexes. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xii, 752 pages) : illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9783110886092 |
| Index Number: | P140 |
| CLC: | H0-532 |
| Contents: |
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 ru |