Patterns of change, change of patterns : linguistic change and reconstruction methodology /
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
Mouton de Gruyter,
1991.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: The comparative method
- American Indian Languages
- Summary report: American Indian languages and principles of language change
- The role of typology in American Indian historical linguistics
- Algonquian linguistic change and reconstruction
- Mayan languages and linguistic change
- Austronesian languages
- Summary report: Linguistic change and reconstruction methodology in the Austronesian language family
- The “aberrant� (vs. “exemplary�) Melanesian languages
- Patterns of sound change in the Austronesian languagesIndo-European languages
- Etymologies, equations, and comparanda: Types and values, and criteria for judgment
- Is the “comparative� method general or family-speciflc?
- Australian Languages
- Summary report: Linguistic change and reconstruction in the Australian language family
- Social parameters of linguistic change in an unstratified Aboriginal society
- The significance of pronouns in the history of Australian languages
- Altaic Languages
- Morphological clues to the relationships of Japanese and KoreanAfro-Asiatic Languages
- A survey of Omotic grammemes
- The regularity of sound change: A Semitistic perspective
- Indexes
- Subject index
- Language index
- Author index