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Patterns of change, change of patterns : linguistic change and reconstruction methodology /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Baldi, Philip
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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 “aberrantâ€? (vs. “exemplaryâ€?) 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 “comparativeâ€? 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