Language Typology and Historical Contingency

1. Preface; 2. Part I. Structures and typologies; 3. Discourse semantics and the form of the verb predicate in Karachay-Balkar: A corpus-based and experimental study (by Kibrik, Andrej A.); 4. Typology and channel of communication: Where do signed languages fit in (by Slobin, Dan I.); 5. Marking versus indexing: Revisiting the Nichols marking-locus typology (by Evans, Nicholas); 6. Head-marking languages and linguistic theory (by Van Valin Jr., Robert D.); 7. Lessons of variability in clause coordination: Evidence from North Caucasian languages (by Kibrik, Aleksandr E.); 8. Noun classes grow on trees: Noun classification in the North-East Caucasus (by Plaster, Keith); 9. Affecting valence in Khumi (by Peterson, David A.); 10. Capturing diversity in language acquisition research (by Stoll, Sabine); 11. Part II. Distributions in time and space; 12. Who inherits what, when?: Toward a theory of contact, substrates, and superimposition zones (by Donohue, Mark); 13. Polysynthesis in the Arctic/Sub-Arctic: How recent is it? (by Fortescue, Michael); 14. A (micro-)accretion zone in a remnant zone?: Lower Fungom in areal-historical perspective (by Good, Jeff); 15. A history of Iroquoian gender marking (by Cysouw, Michael); 16. The satem shift, Armenian sisern, and the early Indo-European of the Balkans (by Darden, Bill J.); 17. Penultimate lengthening in Bantu: Analysis and spread (by Hyman, Larry M.); 18. Culture and the spread of Slavic (by Timberlake, Alan); 19. The syntax and pragmatics of Tungusic revisited (by Grenoble, Lenore A.); 20. Some observations on typological features of hunter-gatherer languages (by Cysouw, Michael); 21. Typologizing phonetic precursors to sound change (by Yu, Alan C.L.); 22. Distributional biases in language families (by Bickel, Balthasar); 23. The morphology of imperatives in Lak: Stem vowels in the second singular simplex transitive affirmative (by Friedman, Victor A.); 24. Subgrouping in Tibeto-Burman: Can an individual-identifying standard be developed? How do we factor in the history of migrations and language contact? (by LaPolla, Randy J.); 25. Part III. A (cautionary) note on methodology; 26. Real data, contrived data, and the Yokuts Canon (by Weigel, William F.); 27. Language index; 28. Name index; 29. Subject index