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Language Typology 1987 : Systematic Balance in Language. Papers from the Linguistic Typology Symposium, Berkeley, 1-3 Dec 1987.

These papers from the 1987 Typology Symposium a follow-up to the 1985 meeting in Moscow deal with the relevance of typology for historical linguistics. Its application in understanding phonological and grammatical change is examined for a variety of languages. Its relevance for application of the co...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lehmann, Winfred P. (Winfred Philipp), 1916-2007
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1990.
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  • LANGUAGE TYPOLOGY 1987 SYSTEMATIC BALANCE IN LANGUAGE; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Table of contents; Foreword; GENERAL AND SPECIFIC TENDENCIES IN HISTORICAL CHANGE OF LANGUAGE TYPE; TYPOLOGY IN THE SERVICE OF INTERNAL RECONSTRUCTION: Saxalin Nivx; TYPOLOGY AND PHONOLOGICAL HISTORY; DIACHRONIC TYPOLOGY AND RECONSTRUCTION: The "Archaism" of Germanic and Armenian in Light of the Glottalic Theory; ALIGNMENT TYPOLOGY AND DIACHRONIC CHANGE; ON THE SOURCE OF THE GENITIVE IN ERGATIVE LANGUAGES.
  • SOME PRECONDITIONS AND TYPICAL TRAITS OF THE STATIVE-ACTIVE LANGUAGE TYPE (with reference to Proto-Indo-European)HISTORICAL MORPHEMICS AND UNIT-ORDER TYPOLOGY; RELATIVE PRONOUNS AND P.I.E. WORD ORDER TYPE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE EURASIATIC HYPOTHESIS; DIACHRONIC CHANGE AND TYPOLOGY, as Illustrated with Languages of East and Southeast Asia; TYPOLOGY AND CHANGE IN ALASKAN LANGUAGES; PRINCIPLES OF GRAMMATICIZATION: Towards a Diachronic Typology; SYNTACTIC RESIDUES; References; Index.