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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790850503321

Titolo

Language typology and historical contingency : in honor of Johanna Nichols / / edited by Balthasar Bickel [and three others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

90-272-7080-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (520 pages)

Collana

Typological studies in language, , 0167-7373 ; ; volume 104

Altri autori (Persone)

BickelBalthasar

Disciplina

415.01

Soggetti

Historical linguistics

Typology (Linguistics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Discourse semantics and the form of the verb predicate in Karachay-Balkar : a corpus-based and experimental study / Andrej A. Kibrik -- Typology and channel of communication : where do signed languages fit in? / Dan I. Slobin -- Marking versus indexing : revisiting the Nichols marking-locus typology / Nicholas Evans & Eva Fenwick -- Head-marking languages and linguistic theory / Robert D. Van Valin Jr. -- Lessons of variability in clause coordination : evidence from North Caucasian languages / Aleksandr E. Kibrik -- Noun classes grow on trees : noun classification in the North-East Caucasus / Keith Plaster, Maria Polinsky & Boris Harizanov -- Affecting valence in Khumi / David A. Peterson -- Capturing diversity in language acquisition research / Sabine Stoll & Balthasar Bickel -- Who inherits what, when? : toward a theory of contact, substrates, and superimposition zones / Mark Donohue -- Polysynthesis in the Arctic/Sub-Arctic : how recent is it? / Michael Fortescue -- A (micro-)accretion zone in a remnant zone? : lower Fungom in areal-historical perspective / Jeff Good -- A history of Iroquoian gender marking / Michael Cysouw -- The Satem Shift, Armenian sisern, and the early Indo-European of the Balkans / Bill J. Darden -- Penultimate lengthening in Bantu : analysis and spread / Larry M. Hyman -- Culture and the spread of Slavic / Alan Timberlake -- The syntax and pragmatics of Tungusic revisited / Lenore A.



Grenoble -- Some observations on typological features of hunter-gatherer languages / Michael Cysouw & Bernard Comrie -- Typologizing phonetic precursors to sound change / Alan C.L. Yu -- Distributional biases in language families / Balthasar Bickel -- The morphology of imperatives in Lak : stem vowels in the second singular simplex transitive affirmative / Victor A. Friedman -- Subgrouping in Tibeto-Burman : can an individual-identifying standard be developed? how do we factor in the history of migrations and language contact? / Randy J. LaPolla -- Real data, contrived data, and the Yokuts Canon / William F. Weigel.