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Record Nr.

UNINA9910970711803321

Titolo

Language typology 1987 : systematic balance in language : papers from the Linguistic Typology Symposium, Berkeley, 1-3 December 1987 / / edited by Winfred P. Lehmann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1990

ISBN

1-283-31364-2

9786613313645

90-272-7831-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 p.)

Collana

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, , 0304-0763 ; ; v. 67

Altri autori (Persone)

LehmannWinfred P

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Typology (Linguistics)

Historical linguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-201) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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 comparative method and the method of internal reconstruction is noted with reference to the glottalic theory and problems in other language families. Among the several approaches, alignment typology is especially examined, with languages defined as accusative, ergative or stative-active an approach to