Linguistic Change and Reconstruction Methodology
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Linguistic Change and Reconstruction Methodology

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Linguistic Change and Reconstruction Methodology

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Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9783110119084
eBook ISBN
9783110886092
Edition
1
Topic
Filología
Subtopic
Gramática y puntuación

Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. List of Contributors
  3. Introduction: The comparative method
  4. 1. American Indian Languages
  5. Summary report: American Indian languages and principles of language change
  6. The role of typology in American Indian historical linguistics
  7. Morphosyntax and problems of reconstruction in Yuman and Hokan
  8. Tlingit: A portmanteau language family?
  9. Algonquian linguistic change and reconstruction
  10. Mayan languages and linguistic change
  11. 2. Austronesian Languages
  12. Summary report: Linguistic change and reconstruction methodology in the Austronesian language family
  13. The “aberrant” (vs. “exemplary”) Melanesian languages
  14. The Austronesian monosyllabic root, radical or phonestheme
  15. Ergativity east and west
  16. Homomeric lexical classification
  17. Patterns of sound change in the Austronesian languages
  18. 3. Indo-European Languages
  19. Summary report of the Indo-European panel
  20. Phonology and morphology at the crossroads
  21. Etymologies, equations, and comparanda: Types and values, and criteria for judgment
  22. The historical grammar of Greek: A case study in the results of comparative linguistics
  23. A survey of the comparative phonology of the so-called “Nostratic” languages
  24. A few issues of contemporary Indo-European linguistics
  25. Is the “comparative” method general or family-specific?
  26. The homomeric argument for a Slavo-Germanic subgroup of Indo-European
  27. 4. Australian Languages
  28. Summary report: Linguistic change and reconstruction in the Australian language family
  29. Verbal inflexion and macro-subgroupings of Australian languages: The search for conjugation markers in non-Pama-Nyungan
  30. Social parameters of linguistic change in an unstratified Aboriginal society
  31. The significance of pronouns in the history of Australian languages
  32. Prenazalization in Pama-Nyungan
  33. 5. Altaic Languages
  34. Summary report of the Altaic panel
  35. Morphological clues to the relationships of Japanese and Korean
  36. A rule of medial *-r- loss in pre-Old-Japanese
  37. Japanese and what other Altaic languages
  38. 6. Afro-Asiatic Languages
  39. Summary report: Linguistic change and reconstruction in the Afro-Asiatic languages
  40. Dialectal variation in Proto-Afroasiatic
  41. Re-employment of grammatical morphemes in Chadic: Implications for language history
  42. Interpretation of orthographic forms
  43. The role of Egyptian within Afroasiatic (/Lislakh)
  44. A survey of Omotic grammemes
  45. The regularity of sound change: A Semitistic perspective
  46. Indexes
  47. Subject index
  48. Language index
  49. Author index